4-Antique Prints-COAST OF ARABIA-PRINSEN EILAND-KISMUS-ISLANDS-de Bruyn-1711

This series shows 4 coastal views of Arabia from a serIes of 8. The prints shown are called on the left: T nieuwe eilant / De zuidkust van t gelukkigh Arabie. On the right: T Prinsen eilant / t eilant Kismus

Made by an anonymous engraver after Cornelis de Bruyn.

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

Sheet size: 39 x 16 cm (15.35 x 6.3 inch). Image size: 35.5 x 14.5 cm. (13.98 x 5.71 inch).

Condition: good, given age. 4 single prints from one plate. Brownish in some edges. Black spots. Some small margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

COAST OF ARABIA-PRINSEN EILAND-KISMUS-ISLANDS | RBOS-A7-05

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in ‘Cornelis de Bruins Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie (..)’. Published by Willem & David Goeree, 1711.

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.