Dutch Gardens | Fine Antique Prints

Hendrik De Leth. (Watervliet) Amsterdam, 1690-93. Framed

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“Watervliet Maison de Plaisance apartenant a l’illustre Gerrit Corver…”
Original hand colored copperplate engraving of estate home and garden from the Dutch work titled,
Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant
by Hendrik De Leth and M. Brouerius van Nidek of Amsterdam. This is an interesting juxtaposition between a view of a stately home and landscape garden plan.
Hand-colored copperplate engraving on laid paper.
Archivally framed 13 x 14 inches.
Excellent condition.

Hendrik De Leth. (Vue de Uyt) Amsterdam, 1690-93. Framed

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“Vue dans Uyt den Bosch hors de la Salle vers le Parterre, le Bassin ornee de verd le petit Montagne ses statets de marbre et le Spaarne”
Original hand colored copperplate engraving of estate home and garden from the Dutch work titled,
Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant
by Hendrik De Leth and M. Brouerius van Nidek of Amsterdam. This is an interesting juxtaposition between a view of a stately home and landscape garden plan.
Hand-colored copperplate engraving on laid paper.
Archivally framed 13 x 14 inches.
Excellent condition.

(Formal Dutch Garden) Crispijn van de Passe. Hortus Floridus. Utrecht, 1614-1617

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Formal Dutch 17th century Garden – Spring “Vernalis”
A masterpiece of botanical illustration
Hortus Floridus
was published in the early 17th century. It was primarily compiled by Crispijn van de Passe junior (1589-1670), a member of a family of well-known Utrecht draughtsmen and engravers. His father and brothers also contributed to the work. Comprising 104 plates showing different garden flowers arranged by season, the book was intended to provide inspiration for garden lovers, who were invited to color in the black and white copperplate engravings themselves according to the colors they found in their own gardens.
This engraving of a walled garden was included as a frontispiece to the work. The detail is fascinating and the engraving is a wonderful historical reference and record as to what was cultivated in early 17
th
century gardens. The flowers depicted in individual beds include carnations, crocus, lilies, cyclamen and hyacinth, along with a sunflower from the New World and with a pleached hedge encircling the charming garden. A gardener is seen watering in the background. Exceptional engraving from the earliest days of pleasure gardening.

Hand colored copperplate engraving, Latin text on reverse.
6.5 x 9.5 inches sheet
14 x 16.5 inches archivally framed in carved gold leafed frame.

Hans Vredeman de Vries ( Pl 7 Ionica ) Hortorvm viridariorvmqve. Amsterdam 1583

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Plate 7 “Ionica”

Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) was a Dutch Renaissance, painter, and engineer. From 1555 on, Hans Vredeman de Vries had a busy career producing pattern books. In 1583, his
Hortorvm viridariorvmqve
,
was issued which was an influential volume devoted exclusively to gardens. His designs show an important novelty,
parterres de pièces coupées
(knot-pattern parterres), which were meant for the display of the exotic plants newly introduced to Europe from far=flung places.

Vredeman de Vries’s designs for parterres reimagine classical orders, with the Doric represented by geometric patterns, the Ionic by circular and volute motifs, and the Corinthian by labyrinths, though sometimes the distinctions between the Corinthian and the Ionic are less than clear.

Lovely example of Vredeman’s work, hand colored at a later date.

Copperplate engraving hand colored on laid paper.
11.5 x 15.5 inches sheet.
Excellent condition.

(Formal Dutch Garden) Crispijn van de Passe. Hortus Floridus. Utrecht, 1614-1617

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Formal Dutch 17th century Garden – Spring “Vernalis”
A masterpiece of botanical illustration
Hortus Floridus
was published in the early 17th century. It was primarily compiled by Crispijn van de Passe junior (1589-1670), a member of a family of well-known Utrecht draughts men and engravers. His father and brothers also contributed to the work. Comprising 104 plates showing different garden flowers arranged by season, the book was intended to provide inspiration for garden lovers, who were invited to color in the black and white copperplate engravings themselves according to the colors they found in their own gardens.
This engraving of a walled garden was included as a frontispiece to the work. The detail is fascinating and the engraving is a wonderful historical reference and record as to what was cultivated in early 17
th
century gardens. The flowers depicted in individual beds include carnations, crocus, lilies, cyclamen and hyacinth, along with a sunflower from the New World and with a pleached hedge encircling the charming garden. A gardener is seen watering in the background. Exceptional engraving from the earliest days of pleasure gardening.

Hand colored copperplate engraving, Latin text on reverse.
6.5 x 9.5 inches sheet
14 x 16.5 inches archivally framed in antiqued Dutch style crackle wood frame with gold leaf liner.
Excellent condition.