Reverse copy of Garden with a central parterre with a star-shaped compartment at center and a house with stairs in the background, plate 17, from Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplicis formae
after Hans Vredeman de Vries Netherlandish
Publisher Johann Bussemacher German
Not on view
Reverse copy of plate 17 from "Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplicis formae", a series of twenty-one etchings by Hans Vredeman de Vries, first published by Philips Galle in 1583. The series of copies (all in reverse except for those after plates 1 and 7) includes seventeen engravings and was published in three editions. This print belongs to the first edition of copies, published by Johann Bussemacher in 1615.