Les pygmées
A French scientific monograph on pygmy peoples by Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, published in Paris by Baillière in 1887, aimed at anthropologists and naturalist readers. Its pictures are plain line drawings and engravings of people in profile and anatomical studies of skulls in side and top views, showing hair texture, facial profile and skull shape, which a designer might take as clean, precise diagrammatic reference for hand-drawn figure studies.
