Principal gate Fuentarrabía Spain – Vintage Wall Art
![Principal gate Fuentarrabía Spain, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/53/5314865e99cb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Principal gate Fuentarrabía Spain, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Principal gate Fuentarrabía Spain
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Fuentarrabía, the Spanish town now called Hondarribia, sits on the Bidasoa estuary at the French border, and this view centers on its principal gate through the old walls. The town grew up as a fortified frontier post, and its defenses reflect centuries of conflict and rebuilding. The picture was made by the photochrom process, a Swiss method of multi-stone color printing that the Detroit Publishing Company sold to American buyers as travel views. Its soft, painterly tones were meant to make distant Spanish places feel close to hand. The record dates the print to between about 1890 and 1900, and it appears in the company's 1905 catalog.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9551. Views of Barcelona Hondarribia and San Sebastián Spain |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,415 × 2,530 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3340_Principal_gate_Fuentarr_1890.tif-06004u |
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