De Kasteeltekeningen van Abraham Rademaker

Abraham Rademaker was the most important topographic artist of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. During his life he made thousands of drawings and prints, including a special series of drawings of Dutch castles, shown both in good condition and as ruins. About 350 of these castle drawings are from private collections and have never been published before. In this book, which is appearing to mark the Year of the Castle, these as yet unknown drawings are presented in combination with Rademaker's other castle drawings in the same series, which now belong to many collections in the Netherlands and elsewhere. All in all there are about seven hundred drawings, depicting nearly five hundred different castles. Each page of drawings is discussed at length, and at the back of the book there is a short history of each castle with a bibliography.
reference work for art and architecture historians, is primarily intended for everyone interested in drawing and/or castles.