Caption
Ekolsund, Ekolsund Palace and its gardens, Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna, print, album page, printmaker: Willem Swidde, Stockholm, supervision: Erik Jönssen Dahlberg, 1690, paper, etching, etching in two parts, folded, height 215 mm x width 414 mm, garden, palace, Enköping, Slot Ekolsund, A wide engraved view of a formal estate with a large rectangular three-story building at the center set on a raised terrace, flanked by symmetrical wings and a balustraded central entrance; in front of the building a geometrically arranged garden with straight gravel walks, clipped hedges, rows of conical and spherical topiary, rectangular parterres, and formal pools with fountains; small human figures in period clothing scattered along the walks and near the terraces, some standing in groups and some walking; avenues of evenly spaced trees extend outward on both sides toward dense wooded areas at the left and right edges of the image; low rolling landscape and distant hills visible on the horizon under a sky with softly shaded clouds; decorative rockwork, shrubs, and larger trees in the foreground framing the view.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A75_153
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