Italian explorers in Africa
A late nineteenth-century Religious Tract Society volume of Italian explorers in Africa, compiled from the Smithsonian's Russell E. Train Africana Collection and published in London in 1891, probably for a general Victorian readership. Its pictures are wood-engraved portrait busts of bearded men in dark coats set against pale ground, with fine hatched shading and loose cross-hatching in the backgrounds, offering a designer a clear model for period portrait engraving and tonal line work.
