The highlands of Æthiopia
A travel narrative published in London in 1844 by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, written by Sir William Cornwallis Harris, an English officer who recorded his mission to the Ethiopian highlands. The first picture is a hand-coloured plate of a figure draped in striped woven cloth with round metal shields beside him, and the second is a monochrome engraving of robed figures with tall ornate headdresses and a processional fan before domed huts. The coloured plate shows bold striped textiles and warm reds and golds a designer could borrow for pattern, while the engraving offers dense crosshatched shading suited to historical line illustration.
