Print Description
Lithograph on wove paper. on paper.
Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 46 x 29.5 cm. The image size is ca. 34 x 23 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 18.1 x 11.6 inch. The image size is ca. 13.4 x 9.1 inch.
Antique print, titled: ‘Vue de la Ville et de l’Ile de Syra.’ – A view of the island Syros, and Ermoupolis. Syros is an island in the Cyclades, Aegean Sea. Some typical sailing ships and rowboats in the foreground. From: “Voyage pittoresque de la Grece”, bound with ”Voyage de Constantinople’, a large and early lithographic atlas. Printed and published in Brussels by Calcographie Royale J. Goubaud, 1822-1829. This is in fact an edition in lithography made after the engraved ed. ‘Voyage pittoresque de la la Grece’ by Choiseul-Gouffier (Paris, 1782-1822) and ‘Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore’ by Melling (Paris, 1809-1819), that were published in Paris. In early lithography by the first Belgian lithographers and much scarser as the earlier engraved ed. Ref: Van der Marck p. 76, 251. Blackmer 1105. Atabey 798.Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Eenens et Peetermans’. Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (Paris. 1752-1817), called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, was a French member of the Academie française and the Choiseul-Gouffier family, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and a scholar of ancient Greece. Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was a painter, architect and voyager who is counted among the “Levantine Artists”. He is famous for his vedute of Constantinople, a town where he lived for 18 years.
Condition: Very good, given age. A small nick in the lower margin. Some scattered stains in the margins and one in the left edge of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-SYROS-ERMOUPOLIS-AEGEAN-CHOISEUL-MELLING-GOUBAUD
PCOX-E1-35
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