VUE DE LA CÔTE DE SANTORIN.

A beautiful view with four sailing ships in the foreground, and the rugged, craggy shore of Santorini behind. 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 neatly mended tear to bottom margin and scarcely perceptible wear to right margin, neither affecting image. Wide margins.