Antique Print of the costume of a Samoyedic woman and man by De Bruyn (c.1700)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Samojeedse vrouw - Samojeedse man' - This plate shows the costume of a Samoyedic woman and man. The Samoyedic peoples are those peoples that speak Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family, Northern Russia. Source unknown, to be determined.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Cornelis de Bruyn' after an anonymous artist. Cornelis de Bruijn (also spelled Cornelius 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.