‘GAMRON, DE EILANDEN, ORMUS, LAREKE, EN KISMIS’

– These two prints show the city of Gamron (Persia, Iran) which is not far from the isles Ormus, Lareke and Kismis. These island can be seen on the other plate. These two prints where published on one page.

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Description

These two prints show the city of Gamron (Persia, Iran) which is not far from the isles Ormus, Lareke and Kismis. These island can be seen on the other plate. These two prints where published on one page.

Made by an anonymous engraver after Cornelis de Bruijn.

Medium: Engraving / etching on handlaid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 39 x 32.5 cm (15.35 x 12.8 inch). Image size: 37.5 x 22.5 cm. (14.76 x 8.86 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Brown edges. Folds in some corners. One tear in lower margin restored. Fold as published. Smudges on reverse. Original plate trimmed to two plates. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PERSIA-IRAN-GAMRON-ORMUS-LAREKE-KISMIS-ISLES-SHIPS-VESSELS | RBOS-A7-05

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive prints were published in ‘Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie’, Amsterdam, 1714.

Biography engraver: Cornelis de Bruyn, (1652-1726) was a Dutch artist and traveler. He made two large tours and published illustrated books with his observations of people, buildings, plants and animals. Best known as a landscape artist, Le 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 Le 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, Le Bruyn returned to The Hague in 1693 to publish this first book. From 1701 he started a second journey into Russia, Persia.