Picturesque Europe

Capri by Harry Fenn (1875)
Plate from "Picturesque Europe"

Picturesque Europe was a three-volume, lavishly illustrated set of books published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. of London, Paris and New York in 1875. The books depicted tourist haunts in Europe, with text descriptions and steel and wood engravings by eminent artists of the time, such as Harry Fenn, William Henry James Boot, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823–1875), Henry Towneley Green (1836–1899), Myles Birkett Foster, John Mogford (1821–1885), David Hall McKewan (1816–1875), William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835–1900) and Joseph B. Smith (1798–1876). A companion set, Picturesque America, was published about the same time and dealt with popular places in the United States.^[1][2]

Contents

Volume One

• Normandy and Brittany, Godfrey Wordsworth Turner
• The Italian Lakes, Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff
• The Passes of the Alps, T.G. Bonney
• The Cornice Road, Oscar Browning
• The Forest of Fontainebleau, Godfrey Wordsworth Turner
• The Rhine, R.J. King
• Venice, T.G. Bonney
• The Pyrenees, A. Griffiths
• Rome and its Environs, T.G. Bonney
• The Rhine (from Boppart to the Drachenfels), R.J. King
• Spain: The North and Old Castile, A. Griffiths

With 13 Steel Engravings by the following artists: Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, S.H. Hodson, T.L. Rowbotham, L.J. Wood, G.G. Kilburne, Louis Haghe. Each volume includes scores of wood engravings by various artists.

Volume Two

• Auvergne and Dauphine, T.G. Bonney
• Old German Towns, Oscar Browning
• Naples, T.G. Bonney
• Norway, William Mattieu Williams
• Spain (New Castile and Estremadura), Arthur Griffiths
• The Lake of Geneva, T.W. Hinchliff
• The Frontiers of France (East and South), T.G. Bonney
• North Italy, T.G. Bonney
• The Channel Islands, W.H. Rideing
• Norway (The Sogne, Nord Fjord, Romsdal), W. Mattieu Williams
• Spain (Cordova, Seville, and Cadiz), Arthur Griffiths
• The Frontiers of France (West and North), Godfrey Wordsworth Turner
• Calabria and Sicily, W. Mattieu Williams
• The Black Forest, George Adam Smith

With 13 Steel Engravings by the following artists: Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Carl Werner, E. George, L.J. Wood, J.D. Woodward,

Volume Three

• Sweden, Arthur Griffiths
• The Tyrol, T.G. Bonney
• Gibraltar and Ronda, Arthur Griffiths
• Dresden and the Saxon Switzerland, George Adam Smith
• Eastern Switzerland, T.G. Bonney
• Constantinople, Arthur Griffiths
• Belgium, Percy Fitzgerald
• The High Alps, T.G. Bonney
• Granad and the East Coast of Spain, Arthur Griffiths
• Russia, W.R.S. Ralston
• The Jura, G.F. Browne
• Athens and its Environs, W. Mattieu Williams
• Holland, George Adam Smith
• The Danube, George Adam Smith

With 13 Steel Engravings by the following artists: L.J. Wood, Harry Fenn, Birket Foster, E. Compton, S. Hodson, J.D. Woodward, E. George, G.G. Kilburne, Carl Werner, W. Simpson.

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