Antique Print-PERSIA-IRAN-ISFAHAN-VIEWS-de Bruyn-1711

‘De brugh Allawerdie-Cham …’

etching / engraving with later hand colouring on hand laid (vergé) paper.
Sheet size: 40,5 x 31 cm. (15,9 x 12,2 inch). Image size: 39 x 28,5 cm. (15,4 x 11,2 inch).

From an edition of: ‘Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie…’, by Corneille le Brun (Cornelis de Bruyn), first published in Dutch in 1711. RB-406

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Cornelis de Bruyn’. Cornelis de Bruijn (also spelled Cornelius de Bruyn, (1652-1726/7) was a Dutch artist and traveler. He made two large tours and published illustrated books with his observations of people, buildings, plants and animals. This is the account of De Bruyn’s second voyage. He left The Netherlands in 1701 and sailed to Archangel and on to Moscow, where he lived for more than a year. In 1703 he reached Persia, and after nearly another year in Isfahan, he continued to Persepolis, the ancient Achaemenid palace. His drawings of these ruins were a disappointment to his public as they differed from those they had already become familiar with. By 1705 De Bruyn was in the Dutch Indies, and gives good account of Batavia, Brabant, Bantam, which he illustrates with images of exotic plants, fruits, spices such as pepper, fish and animals, even including a “Filander” or Kangaroo. Best known as a landscape artist, De Bruyn travelled widely from a young age to Vienna, on to Rome then to Smyrna, Constantinople, Egypt, Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Everywhere he went De Bruyn depicted the scenes around him, he was especially interested in places of antiquity or historic interest, and his are the first images of the interior of a pyramid and Jerusalem to be widely available to Westerners. After an eight-year stay in Venice, De Bruyn returned to The Hague in 1693 to publish this first book.

Condition: Fair, given age. Left margin remargined. Paper loss in bottom margins, rmargined. Small hole in bottom right image. Overall light staining, soiling and creasing. Middle fold, backed. Sold waf. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: PERSIA-IRAN-ISFAHAN-VIEWS

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