Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance: dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85
Le Vaillant's travel account of southern Africa, published in French in 1790 from his journeys of the 1780s around the Cape of Good Hope, written for a European reading public. The pictures are plain copperplate engravings: two full-length portraits of a Khoikhoi man in a fur cloak, one shows a camp with tents and a giraffe on open grassland, and one is a library stamp that a designer can ignore. The figures are small, carefully outlined and set against bare ground, giving a clear model of 18th-century ethnographic line drawing.
