THE HOUSE

of L. and H. TRIP.

Decorative initial D with ornate scrollwork and foliage patterns.

The residences were built by the gentlemen LOUIS and HENDRICK TRIP, sons of the gentleman Jacobus, and the gentleman Lucas Trip, on the Old City Canal by the Kloveniersburgwal, near the Saint Anthony Sluice Gate, in the year 1662 by the master builder Justus Vingboons. He encompassed these two houses under one facade, in such a way that it appears externally as one single palace. The aforementioned building is made of stone, resting on two foundations, and over a shared wall one stone thick, and is approximately sixty feet deep. Above the earth they rest on two foundations and have a shared wall, up to the garret. These two houses have a total width of 90 feet, and the height is 80 feet, total four stories high, besides the cellar and the enormous rooms. The front facade is made of Bentheimer stone and adorned with eight Corinthian pilasters, which are from one piece of stone from the ground to the top. Under these pilasters is a foot-festoon with carved fruits in the manner of Corinthian capitals. The pilasters of this front facade have the virtue that they go straight through the three stories from bottom to top. It is also adorned on the inside with beautiful festoons, and at the top a large pediment, and under the window frames are the forms of foliage work and festoons. These houses are the largest on the aforementioned canal and the most beautiful in Amsterdam, and are considered by the citizens as one of the most dignified buildings of the city.

These Trip houses, as they are usually called, still have many more ornaments in the rooms, galleries, porticoes, door frames, fireplace mantels, and the like. Also, all the rooms are generally provided with beautiful festoons and other decorative works, which would be in vain to relate in this description of the aforementioned Trip houses, since the illustrations sufficiently show the same. Among which is also very remarkable the large hall of the gentleman Hendrick Trip, being adorned with beautiful paintings by the most famous masters of that time, together with a painting above the fireplace of the King of Sweden, with a magnificent triumph of the street works, by the same master of the plate.

A faint, mirrored ghost image of an architectural engraving shows the facade of the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The elevation reveals a grand classical building with a large central triangular pediment containing relief sculpture. The facade is divided by eight prominent Corinthian pilasters that span three stories. There are multiple rows of large windows and a central double entrance at the ground level. The image appears mirrored due to show-through from the other side of the leaf.