Reise des Grafen von Choiseul-Gouffier durch Griechenland
This is a 1782 German travelogue by Marie Gabriel Florent Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, the French ambassador, recording his journey through Greece for an educated readership interested in archaeology and topography. The plates are engravings: one shows a formal audience in an interior with robed figures bowing before a seated host, and the other shows a columned tomb at Mylasa with camels and herders in a hilly landscape. A designer could take from them the crisp hatched line work of late eighteenth-century engraving, with its architectural staging and small figures placed for scale.
