A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa ... Illustrated by two maps, sixteen etchings and twenty-eight wood-cuts
A Quaker traveller's account of Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse of York, published in London in 1844 for British Friends and missionary-society readers, with two maps, sixteen etchings and twenty-eight wood-cuts. The plates are fine-line etched landscapes—Table Mountain and Cape Town from the bay, mission stations among hills, aloes and tree-ferns along roads, sailing boats and birds—offering delicate stipple and hatching textures, wide low horizons and captioned vignette frames.
