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Three fine, magnificently hand-coloured print series depicting the most beloved houses and palaces of Stadholder/King William III. Important for the history of the architecture of Dutch manor houses and gardens

SCHENK, Pieter (ed.)
(1) Delineatio Domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspiciis & iussu Illustriss. Dni. Arnoldi Justi Toparchae in Keppel, Comitis de Albemarle etc. etc. etc. structorum per cl. nostri temporis Magistrum, Jacobum Roman Sereniss. Britann. Regis architectum, accurate sculpta & Illustrisimo Nomini humillimé inscripta à Petro Schenkio sculptore Amstelod. cum Privil.

Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.

Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.

Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.

Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.

Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.



(Amsterdam), Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700. 4to oblong (265 x 310 mm). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt border, corner- and centre pieces, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left.

With:
(2) Pieter SCHENK (ed.). Praetorium Dieranum quod a se per omnes partes descriptum ac delineatum Serenissimo Britanniarum Regi Gulielmo III humillime offert Petrus Schenk. (Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700). 4to oblong. Engraved title and 13 beautiful engraved plates (170 x 205 mm), each with two line Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath. Address below text at left: Pet: Schenk ex. Ametelod: cum Privil.

(3) CALL, Jan van. Loani, ut et villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquarum, conspectus selectiores (= 'Pars secunda' of his Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum). Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, ca. 1700). 4to oblong. Engraved title and 22 beautiful engraved plates (130 x 165 mm), each with Latin and Dutch text at left and right underneath, followed by address: 'P. Schenck exc. Amstelod. C.P.'

Three beautiful print series depicting the most beloved houses and palaces of Stadholder/King William III: (1) the Manor 'Huize De Voorst' near Zutphen of his close fried Arnold Joost van Keppel, earl of Albemarle, (2) the favourite hunting seat of William III, the 'Hof van Dieren', and (3) 'Het Loo near Apeldoorn (17 plates) and the three houses and palaces in The Hague: 'Huis ten Bosch' (the residence of the present Queen; 2 plates), 'Honselaarsdijk' (2 plates) and 'St. Annaland' (= 'Clingendaal'; one plate). The views show the palaces from various angles, as well as the gardens, fountains and statuary. Apparently the collection has been put together by or for a close friend or relation of Arnold Joost van Keppel and William III.

The three series were first issued separately. The first two were, together with four other series (of 'Het Loo', 'Duinrel', 'Rosendael' and the palace of the Swedish King), reissued in the first part of Schenk's Paradisus oculorum in 1702, just before William of Orange died in March 1702. The general title-page to the six parts gives the impression that the architect Jacob Pietersz. Roman (1640-1716) made the drawings. Most parts survive separately (including the present copies).

An extensive and detailed set of print series containing views of some of the most sumptuous palaces and gardens of the seventeenth century. All the views are magnificently coloured by a contemporary hand, and the series are bound together in a strictly contemporary gilt calf binding.

Ad 1: The Manor house 'De Voors' was built in Eefde near Zutphen in 1695 for the closest and intimate friend of William III, his former page at 'Het Loo', Arnold Joost van Keppel (1669-1718), since 1696 earl of Albemarle and baron of Ashford. The house was built by the architect Jacob Roman in cooperation with Marot, who both also had been responsible for the design of 'Het Loo' some years earlier. The design of 'De Voorst' was similar and it was called 'the Versailles of the Eastern Netherlands'. It has functioned as a 'Lieu de plaissance' where Van Keppel, together with William, received many guests.
The house burnt down in 1943 but is restored in 2004-5.
The only lacking plate showing the back of the house "'T huis met zijn vleugels van achter, met het lage bosin tegen den taras" is by no means essential to get a good impression of this elegant country house in its finest days.
Ad 2: William's beloved hunting seat at Dieren near Arnhem is undoubtedly also one of his favourite houses. His father, Stadholder William II, bought the house in 1647 and William III turned it into a royal home with extended and splendid gardens with terraces,, lakes, grottos, fountains and vineyards that exist until today. Three less important views of the 16 are lacking.
Ad 3: Original edition of the second part of a series of views of four different subjects with separate engraved half-titles by Jan van Call (1655-1703): our second part with views of the palaces of William III by Jan van Call (1655-1703), containing 17 views of 'Het Loo', and 5 views of the most important private palaces in (or near) The Hague: 2 of William's country seat just outside The Hague, the 'Huis ten Bosch', 2 of Honselaarsdijk with gardens designed by Jacob Roman and one of 'St. Annaland' (= Clingedaal), the manor house of William's personal friend Philips Doublet next to 'Huis ten Bosch' with gardens designed by André le Nôtre, omitting the plate of the palace at Rijswijk, a representative location for official state receptions, and the two of 'Sorgvliet', the country seat of Willem Bentinck. (Part 1 contains views of the Rhine; part 3 of The Hague and pars 4 of Amsterdam).

Very important for the history of the architecture of Dutch manor houses and gardens in the Golden Age of the Netherlands.

Gorgeous large paper copies of three magnificently hand-coloured print series; as there are no traces of removal of any plate, the series are most probably intentionally bound together without the 7 less important 'missing' plates.- (Some marginal smudges and spotting).
The Anglo-Dutch garden in the age of William and Mary (Journal of Garden, 8/2-3; 1988); ad 1: Hollstein XXV, p. 295, nrs. 1667-82; Tiele 966; Springer, Bibliogr. overzicht tuinkunst, p. 43-44; ad 2: Hollstein XXV, p. 287, nrs. 1227-42; Tiele, 966; Anglo-Dutch garden, p. 139, nr. 23; Springer, p. 43;  ad 3: Springer, p. 44; cf. Hollstein XXV, p. 37, nr. 181.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Castles  Netherlands  Print Series 

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