Het schoone perk van Sorgvliet, by's Gravenhage
By: I. ab Avele delin. & sculp
Contributors: Cóvens et Mortier
Publisher: by Ioannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier
Published: 1702
Place of publication: Tot Amsterdam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Gardens; Flemish Landscape prints; Flemish Prints; Flemish Engraving; Pictorial works
Notes: There are 4 large folded double plates, and 41 smaller format images on 21 leaves.

Title derived from the Getty Library's copy.

Aveele's plates were originally published in Amsterdam by Nicolaus Visscher ca. 1690. Cf. The Dutch garden in the 17th century, p. 100.

Illustrations: 4 signed plates on double-size leaves 53 x 61 cm., plate impression 39.5 x 48 cm., comprising a plan of the estate, a bird's-eye view, a detail of the parterres and immediate surrounds of the house, and a view of the orangery.

The 41 smaller unsigned, numbered plates (13 x 16 cm.) on 25 leaves depict specific features.

The garden of Zorgvliet, originally established by Jacob Cats, bought by Hans Willem Bentinck, Earl of Portland, and further developed, now surrounds the official residence of the prime minister of the Netherlands.