VUE DU PORT DE SCIO

In the foreground the port is busy with sailing and fishing boats in this beautifully detailed scene. On the shore in the background stands the town with its many turrets, and behind that mountains stretch away. 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, despite a scarcely perceptible tear on bottom margin and small crease on right margin, neither affecting image. With good wide margins.