Hand Colored Engraving by Salmon / Temple: View of the Ruins At Carthage in Algeria

Quietly, a wide pale bay opens beneath a single craggy hill and a cloudy sky

This hand colored engraving is from England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1842. It is ink on paper. Thomas Allom, an architect and founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects, illustrated books on China in the 1840s without ever making the trip there himself. Hand-tinted throughout, a view from a grassy bank down to a broad, still body of water, with one rounded hill on the far side. A few small figures sit in the foreground. It is 10.8 inches wide and 8.1 high.

A great deal of water and not one person in a hurry.