Tournoi turc.

A fabulously intricate and lively scene, full of riders on horseback brandishing javelins. Fascinated onlookers gaze at the chaotic scene from a balcony to the right, whilst in the background a group of musicians play, their music surely drowned out by the din of the tournament! 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 wide margins.