BOURGEOISES DE L’ILE DE TINE. SERVANTES DE L’ILE DE TINE.

A very pretty pair of black and white engravings. On the left is a domestic scene depicting the island’s Bourgeoisie - a woman sits knitting with her older daughter on one side and her baby asleep in a cradle on the other. On the right two servants from the island are shown on a hill overlooking the sea, one holding her daughter by the hand.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 good wide margins.