Cartographer:
Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel
Title:
Tombeau pres de Mylasa.
Stock Code:
4857
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Paris
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece
Size: (W x H):
35cm x 22cm
14 inches x 8½ inches
Date:
1782
Price:
£150
Handsome plate of a ruined hilltop tomb with square corinthian columns at Mylas, near Bodrum in Turkey. 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.