Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce
Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce is a 1782 travel book in French by Marie Gabriel Florent Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, a picturesque account of Greece aimed at armchair travellers and collectors of antiquities. Its plates are sepia aquatints of ruined temples, hilltop fortresses and coastal scenes, with small figures in foreground groups. A designer might take from them the tonal range of brown wash, the staged compositions of ruins framed by trees, and the way tiny figures establish scale.
