Johannes Kip was a Dutch draftsman, engraver, and print seller who followed King William III and Queen Mary II from Holland to England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. During the reign of Queen Anne, he recorded birds eye views of 80 British estates with draftsman Leonard Knyff. Their Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces and Also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, curiously engraven on 80 copper plates was published in London in 1708-9. Kip's and Knyff's views were incredibly accurate depictions of British estates, especially considering that they did not have the advantage of a hot-air balloon to capture aerial perspectives. Published as black and white engravings, Kip's views in the Colonial Williamsburg collection have been reimagined in color as Queen Anne's Views and given a painterly interpretation by Paul Montgomery Studio.
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