• Hans Vredeman de Vries (designer)
• Peter van der Borcht (designer)
• Peter van der Borcht (etcher)
• Philippe Galle (etcher)

Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes & multiplicis formae ad architectonicae artis norman affabre

published ca. 1600

- Comprised of a title page and 34 views, the 'Hortorum' of ca. 1600 illustrates a series of designs for town-house gardens. These designs, which together form a kind of pattern book, are characterized by trellis- or gallery-enclosed plots adorned with intricate geometric parterres, topiary, arbours, pavilions and fountains. The parterres shown in plates 1 to 20 represent the artist's personal interpretation of the classical Orders -- Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian -- as applied to garden design.

• theoretical drawings

Etching

plate mark (average): 18.8 x 24.7 cm sheet (largest): 25.4 x 37.4 cm

DR1986:0762:001-035

• pictorial drawings

• bird's-eye views

- 35 folios, originally bound together; Covers now missing; Folios 1-27 still housed as a group; Folios 28-- 35 are individually matted.

imprinted - on the title page, c.: "HORTORVM / VIRIDARIO= / RVMQVE / elegances & multiplices formae, / ad architectonicae artis normam af= / fabre delineatae. à Iohanne Vredman= / no Frisio. / Theodorus Gallaeus excudebat Antuerpiae."; l.l.: "Belles et diverses figures de Jardins et Vergers, selon les regles de / l'Architecture, artificiellement exprimées par Jean Vredeman Frison."; l.r.: "Seer schoone, ende veelderleye fatsoenen van Houen e~nñ Boomgaerden, nae dee~ / eysch van de Bouw-conste, constelyck wtghedruckt door Iean Vredeman Vriese." imprinted - each plate numbered following the title page 1 through 34 imprinted - plates 1-6 titled, b.: "DORICA"; plates 7-13 titled, b.: "IONICA"; plates 14-20 titled, b.: "CORINTHIA" imprinted - plate 12, within the image, t.: "AHI" imprinted - plate 21, l.l.: "Joannes de Vries Vredma. inventor."; l.r.: "Theodorus Galleus excudit." imprinted - plate 22 dated on building, u.l.: "1586"; plates 23, 25, and 27 dated on buildings in the background, t.: "1587"

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• garden
• fountains
• palaces
• topiary
• walled gardens
• garden walks
• maze garden
• arbour
• knot garden
• labyrinth
• pavilions
• trellises
• garden structures

Contient:

• DR1986:0762:030, Water games set before a town garden, ca. 1600