VUE DE LA VILLE DE NAXIA.

A beautiful view in which the town of Naxos stands to the right of the picture, sloping down to the shores of the sea, where there are three rowing boats and five naked women bathing. A group of men chat together on the shore to the right of the scene.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 condition, despite four small mended tears on bottom margin and tear on top margin, none affecting image. Wide margins.