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Jewish woman in Cairo
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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…

Contributor:

Cornelis de Bruyn

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Women, Dress, Leisure, Cities, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print of seated person in large hat and robes facing to the left smoking a very long pipe.
Jewish Man in Cairo
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This engraving depicting a Jewish man in Cairo, Egypt is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus enz…

Contributor:

Cornelis de Bruyn

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Music, Dress, Leisure, Cities, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print depicting man in turban and draped robe sitting amid pillows and playing instrument with bow.
Jewish Woman in Izmir, Turkey.
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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Izmir, Turkey, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…

Contributor:

Cornelis de Bruyn

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Women, Dress, Jewelry, Cities, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print portrait of woman facing viewer wearing large hat and many-stranded pearls.
Crónica de los reyes otomanos (Chronicle of the Ottoman Kings)
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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…

Contributor:

Moses Almosnino

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1567

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Economic life, Women, Ethnography

Categories:

History