Travels in Sicily and to Mount Etna in 1819
A travel account published in 1820 by Joseph Antoine de Gourbillon, describing his 1819 journey through Sicily and up Mount Etna, with plates for an audience of readers interested in archaeology and topography. The first picture is a plain engraved map of the ancient Syracuse villages set against the sea and Ionian coast, with a compass rose and tidy lettering that suits technical diagrams. The second shows Etna smoking above a low stone farmhouse under hatched, shaded skies, a restrained engraving whose cross-hatching and tonal banding offer a model for sketchy landscape linework.
