Alger : vues dessinées d'après nature
A lithographed album of views of Algiers published in Paris in 1840 by Rittner et Goupil, drawn from nature by Antoine-Léon Morel-Fatio with Vögel, and made for a French audience during the colonial conquest of Algeria. The plates show street scenes, mosques, harbour quays and coastal landscapes, rendered in grey tones with small figures in local dress that suggest everyday life; a designer could take their careful architectural perspective and layered tonal shading as reference for topographic or travel imagery.
