1802 J B Lechevalier Antique Print Temple Apollo Ruins Gülpınar Çanakkale Turkey Egypt Paper size: - 21 1/2in

1802 J B Lechevalier Antique Print Temple Apollo Ruins Gülpınar Çanakkale Turkey Egypt Paper size: 21 1 2in Paper size: 21 1 2in x 14 1 2in (550mm x 370mm) Captain James Cook was commissioned by the Royal Society and on orders from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to observe the transit of Venus across the sun This original copper plate engraved antique print view of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo in the ancient city of Hamaxitus in the Troad region of NW Turkey with Greek inscription from the temple was published in the 1802 edition of Jean Baptiste Lechevaliers of Voyage de la Troade one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer