Cartographer:
Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel
Title:
Plan du Golfe at des Iles Volcaniques de Santorin.
Stock Code:
4847
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Paris
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece
Size: (W x H):
25cm x 34.5cm
10 inches x 13½ inches
Date:
1782
Price:
£145
Interesting large scale map showing the volcanic islands in the gulf of Santorini. 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 islands, the coast of Asia Minor, and of his travels on the mainland, was immediately acclaimed on publication in 1778. According to Brunet, it was incontestably the most beautiful production of this kind seen until then. Choiseul-Gouffier's work offered for the first time, illustrations of remote places that complemented the scrupulously researched narrative.
Good wide margins.