Aguesca

Spanish family of printmakers. Jer?nimo Aguesca ( fl Huesca, 1638-44), an etcher, was commissioned to illustrate the Conclusiones (scholarly theses) produced by the Universidad Sertoriana in Huesca with numerous handsomely decorated coats of arms. He executed various religious engravings and made the plates of archaeological remains for Juan Francisco Andr?s's Monumento de los Santos M?rtires Justo y Pastor (Huesca, 1644). He signed his works Jer?nimo Aguesca Oscae, Aguesca F. or simply Oscae. His brother, Lorenzo Aguesca, engraved the vignettes for Vicencio Juan de Lastanosa's Museo de las medallas desconocidas de Espa?a (Huesca, 1645). Jer?nimo's daughter, the engraver Teresa Aguesca (b Huesca, 1654) became famous for producing, at the age of nine, an engraving of St Anthony and the Christ Child (1663). She also collaborated with her father on a large number of coats of arms and armorial bearings.

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