VUE DE LA VILLE ET DE L’ILE DE SIPHANTO.

View from the sea of the port of the Cycladic island of Sifnos(‘Siphanto’). 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 .

Good margins. Fine condition.