Antique Print-WOMEN-COSTUME-IOS-GREECE-Choiseul-Melling-Goubaud-1822

Lithograph on wove paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 28 x 20 cm. The image size is ca. 22 x 17 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 11 x 7.9 inch. The image size is ca. 8.7 x 6.7 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Femmes de l’Ile de Nio.’ – Three women from the Greek island Ios. They are spinning at a spinning wheel. 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 ‘Delpierre’. 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. Some faint soiling and small spots in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-WOMEN-COSTUME-IOS-GREECE-CHOISEUL-MELLING-GOUBAUD

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