VUE D’UNE CAVERNE servant d’entrée aux galleries souterraines de Milo. TOMBEAU DE MARBRE BLANC dans l’Isle de Siphanto.

A pair of beautiful engravings. The top one shows a group of cavers with their flaming torches in a cave serving as the entrance to a network underground on the Greek island of Milo. The bottom engraving shows an imposing white marble tomb by the sea on the neighbouring island of Sifnos, by the tomb a woman, accompanied by her child and dog, washes her crockery.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.