STORAGE JAROSLAV' & VOLODGA RUSSIA 1718 DE BRUYN RARE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEWS OF RUSSIA Condition: --not specified Ended: Mar 05, 2023 21:17:36 PST Winning bid: US $36.00 Jaroslaw Poland & Volodga Russia 1718 De Bruyn Views Of Russia Antique Print Description Striking and highly decorative interesting large copper engraved plate featuring, on one shet, the views of Jaroslaw, a city in Poland, Volodga, a city in Russia, and a Cedar Branch. The sheet has been published in: Cornelis de Bruyn. Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Ouvrage enrichi de plus de 320 tailles douces ... On y a ajoûté la route qu'a suivie mr. Isbrants, ambassadeur de Moscovie, en traversant la Russie & la Tartarie, pour se rendre à la Chine. Et quelques remarques contre mrs. Chardin & Kempfer. Avec une lettre écrite à l'auteur, sur ce sujet .. A Am,sterdam: Chez les Frиres Wetstein, 1718. Date: 1718 ( undated ) Paper size approx.: cm 46,6 x 34,9 Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet uncolored. Paper with chains. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Paper with foxing and browning. Small tears. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Cornelis de Bruijn 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... This plate engraved by J. Mulder after R. du Val. 11602