VUE INTERIEURE DE L’EGLISE DE L’APOCALIPSE. FEMMES DE L’ILE DE PATHMOS.

A pair of contrasting scenes from Patmos, in the Dodecanese. The top shows the imposing interior of the Church of the Apocalypse, which enshrines the sacred grotto where St John received and accounted his ‘Revelations’. The bottom engraving shows two women holding water urns, in conversation at a spring.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.