Blaeu’s Charterhouse of Pesio, near Cuneo in Piedmont

Cartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173

This is the Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont.

Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697.

Condition & Materials

Copper engraving, 38 x 52 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetta, black and white, blank verso.

References

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80