Abstract
Abstract In 1741 an Englishman by the name of Poole travelled through France and Holland, and on 22 August reached the old town of Utrecht in the centre of The Netherlands. There he visited the estate of Zijdebalen, which included house, gardens and a silk factory owned by David van Mollem, with the purpose ofviewing ‘the famous gardens’.2 It is on these that he dwells at length: on their variety of most beautiful walks, their waterworks, the high, curiously cut hedges and the grotto-house ‘which for beauty and curiosity is inexpressible, far exceeding all that I have yet seen of that kind’. To him this garden is ‘the most curious place seen in these parts’ and he urges a visit to it.
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