VUE DU COUVENT DE PATHMOS.

The monastery stands on a hill in the background of this pretty view. In the central foreground a traveller encounters a priest, whilst to the left his companions sit, one of them sketching the monastery that towers before 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.

Fine condition, with wide margins.