VUE DE LA MONTAGNE DES TOMBEAUX PRÈS DE TELMISSUS.

A beautiful view of this mountain above the Turkish town of Fethiye. The craggy mountain is interspersed with impressive, colonnaded tombs carved into the rock. In the foreground to the left three camels rest whilst two men near them converse and smoke hookahs, to the right another man leads two laden camels, whilst in the background are two riders on horseback and a man sitting on the ground with his dog. 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.

Fine condition with good wide margins.