Inwoners van Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1595 1597 - 1646

This anonymous engraving, *Inwoners van Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1595*, depicts two figures standing in a landscape with various animals. The figures, likely indigenous people from the Cape of Good Hope region, are shown in the style of European travelers’ depictions of their explorations. This style emphasized the "exotic" and "primitive" aspects of the new lands discovered, a trend common in art of the 16th and 17th centuries. The print, housed in the Rijksmuseum, is a valuable artifact in understanding early European representations of indigenous peoples and their environments.