The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Vredeman de Vries (1527 - 1607)
Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Vredeman_de_Vries References in Documents:Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (i) A volume of 216 engravings from 10 sets with 2 single examples, all bought by Bargrave on
his travels. Just over 100 of the engravings are from four mid 17th century sets by members
of the Rossi family, the Papal engravers and publishers also of the Rome and elsewhere was published by
Sadeler in Prague in 1606 . There
are 48 plates from 3 sets of late 16th century
Flemish designs, mostly at least, by Vredeman de Vries . The final 13 plates
are from an early 17th century
German series of idealised geometrical plans of fortified places. Bargrave mentions them in his will, which he himself wrote in 1670 : "to our
Library of Canterbury . . . all the Cutts (in my trunks) Of all the Ancient Ruines, the Pallaces,
Statues, Fountaines, the Cardinalls, Souldiers, Phylosophers, &c", now L-8-16.
Effigiesabove. There are 25 plates of fountains, 9 of obelisks and columns, 18 of antique sculpture and 49 of palaces. A much earlier set, included in the volume, of 50 plates of ancient sites of