• Max Lauer (draughtsman)
• Max Lauer (gardener)

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

1664

- 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.

• pattern drawings

Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink or graphite

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

DR1987:0832:001-110

• line drawings

• plan (drawing)
• elevation (drawing)

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

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

• architecture de paysage

• maze gardens
• knot gardens
• labyrinths
• trellises
• pattern book