Palais de l’Aga d’Eski-Hissar. Fête turque.

A lovely pair of black and white engravings. The top shows a Turkish palace with men on horseback and dogs apparently leaving for a hunt in the forecourt. The bottom picture shows a group of dancers, accompanied by musicians entertaining an audience of Turkish men.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 with wide margins.