‘Aus den Kupffern’ ; ‘Aus den Kupffern aber / so man davon hat / ersehe ich / daß ich nichts sonderliches daran zu sehen versäumet habe.’: Zur Funktion des Kupferstiches für die Rezeption niederländischer Gartenkunst um 1700

When William III of the house of Orange ascended the English throne in 1689, this led to a great increase in the number of prints of Dutch noblemen's gardens in the Dutch Republic. After the death of William III such series, each of them depicting one single nobleman's garden, were only rarely made anymore. Instead of them, bulky volumes of prints of regional sights appeared around 1720, among which bourgeois country estates occupied an important place. The supply of garden prints did not only attract the attention of collectors, but also of foreign architects travelling through The Netherland... Mehr ...