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Lisbon 1755, The Earthquake

2005 Creation
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Contemporary jewellery collection, which includes silver and resin artefacts with reproductions of images* withdrawn from some creative drawings, alluding to the violent earthquake followed by tsunami, which devastated the city of Lisbon and surroundings [1755], that anonymous German authors engraved in copper [end of the 18thc].

Design Teresa Milheiro

* Reproduced in Fonseca, J. Duarte (2005), 1755 O Terramoto de Lisboa (The 1755 Lisbon earthquake), ed. Argumentum, Lisbon.

Acknowledgements J. Duarte Fonseca, researcher in Seismology ~ Smithsoniam Channel ©

Lisbon ruins. After the earthquake tents for survivors and gallows for looters, as this German engraving from 1755 illustrates.
Lisbon ruins after the earthquake and a silver and resin brooch.
Illustration of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755.
Illustration of the Lisbon earthquake and a silver and resin brooch.
Copper engraving showing Lisbon in flames and survivors taking shelter in tents (1755).
Illustration of a caravel mast and a silver and resin ring.
Lisbon Cathedral, after the earthquake, painted by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, in 1757.
1755 Copper engraving showing Lisbon in flames and a tsunami overwhelming the ships in the harbour.