Joseph Antoine Cervini was an author who provided the text for a book titled Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées Françaises et les Départements Adjacents, (Picturesque Travels in the French Pyrenees and the Adjacent Areas), Treuttel and Wurtz, Paris: 1826-30, (Bibliographie nationale Française, BnF, The French national Bibliography ISBN 2-911715-12-8). This book documents the journey of Antoine Ignace Melling

Antoine Ignace Melling

Antoine Ignace Melling 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. He was imperial architect to Sultan Selim III and Hatice Sultan and later landscape painter to the Empress...

, who was sent by the French Government to document the Pyrenees

Pyrenees

The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...

, and to demonstrate that their natural beauty rivalled that of the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

. The book includes 72 fine aquatint

Aquatint

Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.Intaglio printmaking makes marks on the matrix that are capable of holding ink. The inked plate is passed through a printing press together with a sheet of paper, resulting in a transfer of the ink to the paper...

s, based on original sepia watercolours.

Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore (paperback), the Elibron Classics book, is a facsimile reprint of the 1826 edition by Aug. Wahlen, Bruxelles. Adamant Media Corporation (May 3, 2001) in French. ISBN 0543973182 ISBN 978-0543973184.