A sketchbook of designs for knot gardens, maze gardens and trellises

People:

Max Lauer (draughtsman)
Max Lauer (gardener)

Title:

A sketchbook of designs for knot gardens, maze gardens and trellises

Date:

1664

Description:

- This sketchbook contains 103 designs for garden parterres and labyrinths and 7 designs for trellises (the drawings of trellises on the last folio are in graphite and are probably by a later hand). The first 2 folios and the last 6 are blank.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 sketchbook(s)

Stage and Purpose:

pattern drawings

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink or graphite

Dimensions:

cover (average): 14.2 x 17.1 x 2.4 cm (5 9/16 x 6 3/4 x 15/16 in.)

Reference number:

DR1987:0832:001-110

Drawing Type:

line drawings

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
elevation (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- 118 folios bound between vellum covers decorated with stamped borders and with marbled end papers.

Inscription:

imprinted - on the cover, in black ink, c.: "G Z G / 1664" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, facing drawing no. 108, t.: "Maxi=ma=Rolber = Rolba Maxi ma / Maxi ma Rolba "; c.: "Max=Lauer [both inscriptions transcribed from German fraktur]" inscribed - by a later hand, in graphite, u.r. or u.l.: each drawing is numbered

Subject:

landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

maze gardens
knot gardens
labyrinths
trellises
pattern book

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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