Illustrated letters to my children from the Holy Land. Eastern manners and customs depicted in ... sketches from life
Illustrated letters written by the painter Henry Andrew Harper to his children, published in London by the Religious Tract Society in 1880 to teach young readers Eastern manners and customs through sketches made on the spot in Palestine. The plates are light wood-engraved line drawings, many turned sideways with engraved captions, showing seated Bedouin groups, mounted riders with lances, camel trains and shepherds calling flocks across open ground, with thin hatching and large areas of blank paper useful as sparse vignettes or vector silhouettes.
