A pair of contrasting scenes from Patmos, in the Dodecanese. The top shows the imposing interior of the Church of the Apocalypse, which enshrines the sacred grotto where St John received and accounted his ‘Revelations’. The bottom engraving shows two women holding water urns, in conversation at a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 34 / 9 x 13½

A very pretty pair of black and white engravings. On the left is a domestic scene depicting the island’s Bourgeoisie - a woman sits knitting with her older daughter on one side and her baby asleep in a cradle on the other. On the right two servants from the island are shown on a hill overlooking ...

Dimensions (W x H): 33.5 x 21 / 13 x 8½

A charming rural scene showing a cottage and a group of women with their children, surrounded by birds and three pigs. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the Greek ...

Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 24.5 / 14½ x 9½

A lovely pair of engravings of islanders. The top showing two men, a woman and child by the sea in Naxos, the bottom showing two women inside a house in Tine.In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 33.5 / 9 x 13

The top engraving in this pair is a pretty view taken from the sea of a shore busy with fishermen - a mosque stands imposingly right by the sea, but little of the ruined temple to Cybele, the Goddess of fertility, remains despite the picture’s title. The bottom engraving shows three women from Scio ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 34 / 8½ x 13½