Sketches of China and the Chinese / from drawings by Auguste Borget
Sketches of China and the Chinese is an 1842 travel book by Auguste Borget, published in London by Tilt and Bogue and in Paris by Goupil and Vibert, for European readers curious about China. Its pictures are lithographic views of Chinese towns, riverside houses and harbour scenes, drawn in soft grey tones with rotated plates; a designer might take their layered tree foliage, boat rigging and receding skylines as models for atmospheric landscape composition.
