Journal of a residence in Ashantee, comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast, and the interior of Western Africa, chiefly collected from Arabic mss. and information communicated by the Moslems of Guinea: to which is prefixed an account of the origin and causes of the present war. Illustrated with a map and plates
Joseph Dupuis's 1824 London travel account, published by H. Colburn, describes the Ashanti kingdom on the Gold Coast of West Africa and draws on Arabic manuscripts and reports from Muslim informants. The plates shown are engravings of Ashanti people at work and leisure, with a landscape view of a river and forest. A designer could take from them the crisp hatched linework of early nineteenth-century British engravings and the staged, figure-led compositions typical of colonial-era travel illustration.
