Caption
Map of Drottningholm estate, Ichonographia Arcis Drottningholmensis, Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna, print, album page, printmaker: Martin Mytens (I), supervision: Erik Jönssen Dahlberg, 1695, paper, etching, height 262 mm x width 387 mm, plan, architecture, map of garden, Lovön, Slot Drottningholm (Lovön), A detailed bird's-eye plan of a formal garden and surrounding landscape rendered in fine sepia lines, showing geometric garden beds, tree-lined avenues, symmetrical pathways, and ornamental parterres arranged around a large central rectangular pool with an oval end and a circular feature at its center; adjoining sections include ornate formal beds with circular and rectangular motifs, terraces, and axial walkways flanked by evenly spaced trees, as well as triangular planting areas and small circular plazas; the left and lower edges reveal building footprints with courtyards and entrances, while the right and lower right areas depict a textured natural terrain with undulating hills and scattered clusters of trees and shrubs; faint rectangular framing lines border the entire sheet.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A75_147
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