Voyage pittoresque de la France : avec la description de toutes ses provinces : ouvrage national dédié au Roi et orne d'un grand nombre de gravures exécutées avec les plus grand soin d'après les dessins des meilleurs artistes
A French illustrated travel survey, the Voyage pittoresque de la France, published in Paris by Lamy between 1791 and 1800 and dedicated to the King for a general readership interested in the provinces. The four pictures are sepia-toned engraved landscapes printed sideways on the page, showing hilltop towns, rivers, and rolling countryside. A designer could draw on their dense layered compositions, with towers and trees stacked against distant mountains, for townscape or landscape motifs.
