Walter Gedde

Walter Gedde was an English designer of the Jacobean period.

He is known for his influential A Booke of Sundry Draughtes principaly serving for Glasiers (London: Walter Dight, 1615).[1]

No further information for his biography is known.

The book contains 103 woodcut engravings. Gedde explained that his patterns were also suitable for plasterers and gardeners.[2]

Some designs derive from Sebastiano Serlio's Il Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura.

References
  1. Anthony Wells-Cole, 'Who Was Walter Gedde?', Furniture History, vol. 26 (1990), pp. 183-190.
  2. Mark Girouard, Elizabethan Architecture (Yale, 2009), p. 45.
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