VUE DE LA VILLE DE METELIN et de son Port Septentrional.

Lovely view from the sea looking towards the town of Mytilene. The port is busy with sailing and rowing boats, while naked bathers take a dip to the right of the scene. Lighthouse in the centre right.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.