Voyage D'Horace Vernet En Orient: Orné de seize dessins
A French travel album of 1843 by Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet, illustrated after sketches by Horace Vernet, recording his journey through the Near East for a European readership. The hand-coloured lithographs show Ottoman-era costumes, street crowds, and interior scenes, with figures in turbans, fezzes, embroidered jackets and loose trousers. A designer could take from them the layered patterned textiles, the dense group compositions, and the warm, flat colour washes typical of mid-nineteenth-century lithography.
