Garden of the Weltevreden country estate in Batavia

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Garden of the Weltevreden country estate in Batavia

Hoffer, Andreas / Heydt, Johann Wolfgang

View from the governor-general's gaming house of the Weltevreden garden with several statues, including Neptune on a rock.

In the background a creek with rowing boats.

Top left: No: XLV..

Top right: pag. 133.

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Is part of:

Jakarta

Creator

Hoffer, Andreas (engraver / etcher)

Heydt, Johann Wolfgang (draughtsman)

Period

1739

Material

paper

Technique

engraving

Kind

print

Dimension

237 x 278 mm237 x 278 mm

Number

RP-P-1961-475

Owner

Rijksmuseum AmsterdamKoninklijke Bibliotheek

Tags

survey / view, art / object, banderole / cartouche / ornamentation, play house / society, garden / ornamental garden

Inscription

Ein anderweitiger Prospect aus Sr. Hoch-Edelheit des Herrn General Gouverneurs Lusthäussgen in gedachten Garten gezeichnet.

Sources and literature

Heydt, Johann Wolfgang, Allerneuester Geographische- und Topographischer Schau-platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien (1744)

Landwehr, J., VOC: A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company 1602-1800 (1991)