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Depiction of the country estate of one of the richest men of the Dutch Golden Age

SCHENK, Pieter.
Duinrel. Den hoogedelgeboren heere C. de Jonge van Ellemeet, heere van Ellemeet etc. etc. Ontfanger Generael der vereenigde Nederlanden word de afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel gedienstig opgedragen.

With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.

With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.

With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.

With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.

With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.



(Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702). Half vellum, marbled boards. With engraved dedication, and 16 fine engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel, at Wassenaar, near The Hague by Petrus Schenk. The 17 plates, each with Dutch and Latin captions at left and right underneath, are tipped on leaves of 186 x 255mm.

Beautiful complete print series with an engraved dedication leaf to the owner Mr. Cornelis de Jonge van Ellemeet (1646-1721) and 16 numbered engraved plates of this beautiful manor house in the dunes of Wassenaar, near The Hague. De Jonge van Ellemeat was General Receiver of the Dutch Republic from 1674-1707, and the post supplied him with high annual revenues, and he could be counted among the richest in the land. In 1680 De Jonge bought the estate of Kruytenbosch and Duinrel which was to become part of landed estates of about 190 hectare (470 acres) round Wassenaar, most of the land being farmed out. Unlike other country estates, the layout of the park has here developed along a broad rather than a long axis, probably owing to the geographical situation so close to the dunes: a plantation with avenues are star-shaped paths through woods grouped around two meadows. The Duinrel park is closely related to the setting out of parklands on English country estates at the end of the seventeenth century. From Coenraad Droste's country-house poem we can learn that at Duinrel things were done on a large scale. His extensive description of the painted ceilings, Chinese lacquer work etc. contrasts freely with the traditional sublimation of the simplicity of country-life.
This suite of prints was published as part four in the series Paradisus oculorum, sive conspectus elegantissimi centum (Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1702), together with print series of The Loo, Dieren, Voorst, Rozendael, and the 'Praetorium' of the Swedish King.

Fine copy.
Springer p. 43-4; Hollstein XXV, 1243-58; The Anglo-Dutch garden in the age of William and Mary (= Journal of Garden History, 8/2-3 (1988)), pp. 198-9. 203)

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Gardens  Netherlands  The Hague  Topography 

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