Cartographer:
Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel
Title:
VUE DE LA MONTAGNE DES TOMBEAUX PRES DE TELMISSUS
Stock Code:
4853
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Paris
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece
Size: (W x H):
20.5cm x 31cm
8 inches x 12 inches
Date:
1782
Price:
£175
View of the tombs carved into the rock above the Turkish town of Fethiye. This plate is from Volume I of Choiseul-Gouffier’s Voyage Pittoresque, a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean and an account of his tour (with the artist, J.B. Hilaire) of Greece, the Greek islands, and the coast of Asia Minor. According to Brunet, it was incontestably the most beautiful production of its kind seen until then. Choiseul-Gouffier's work offered for the first time, illustrations of remote places that complemented the scrupulously researched narrative .
Fine condition.