JARDIN DE L’ILE DE SCIO.

A beautiful scene of this verdant, luscious garden. A group of men chat and smoke hookahs in front of a mill driven by a horse. To the left of the picture two women and two children stand with three dogs playing in front of them. 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.

Very good condition, with wide margins.