Link to Jan Kip Leonard Knijff

hampton court, kip , knyff s britannia illustrata, 1708

the inexorably linked careers of leonard knijff , jan kip trace specialty of engraved views of english country houses, represented in minute detail bird s-eye view long-established 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 – 09). volume among important english topographical publications of 18th century. architecture rendered great care , detail, , settings of parterres , radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths gates , toolsheds illustrated meticulous detail, , amusingly staffed figures , horses, coaches pulling forecourts, water-craft on rivers, filled delight native low countries traditions. of plates maps, in siennese map perspective, feat of imagination in world had not conceived of balloon ascension.