Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine: Collection de planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine
This is a plate volume from Pierre Sonnerat's Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, published in 1806 and drawn from travel records of South Asia for European readers. The engravings show Hindu deities, ritual festivals, and local people such as a Brahmin of the Vishnu sect, and a designer might take their formal, stylised engraved figures and their dense hatched shading as a model for ethnographic plate work.
