Partnership with Leonard Knyff Jan Kip
not gentlemen s seats up-to-date hampton court: many-gabled jacobean toddington manor, remnant of moat, parish church , half-timbered outbuildings contrasted fine, brand-new formal garden.
kip s engraving of chevening published in 1719.
the linked careers of jan kip , leonard knyff made specialty of engraved views of english country houses, represented in detail bird s-eye view, pictorial convention topography. major work britannia illustrata: or views of several of queens palaces, of principal seats of nobility , gentry of great britain, curiously engraven on 80 copper plates, london (1707, published in winter of 1708–9). volume among important english topographical publications of 18th century. architecture rendered care, , settings of parterres , radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths, gates , toolsheds illustrated in detail. images staffed figures , horses, coaches pulling forecourts, water-craft on rivers, in line traditions of low countries. of plates in siennese map perspective .
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