Reisebilder aus Liberia : Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887
Reisebilder aus Liberia is a German travel and natural history account by Johann Büttikofer, published in Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1890, recording field research on geography, natural history and ethnography in Liberia from 1879 to 1887. The pictures are fine pen and wash sketches of forest clearings, a bearded man in a loose coat and loincloth, a broad river with a dugout canoe, and a wooded shore, rendered in soft tonal hatching that suggests tropical vegetation and humid light; a designer might borrow the loose, sketchy linework and the layered depth of foliage for landscape backgrounds.
