Picturesque Europe

Bouillon, Sedan, the Vosges and the Amalfi coast are among the places engraved for Picturesque Europe, Cassell, Petter and G...

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Bouillon, Sedan, the Vosges and the Amalfi coast are among the places engraved for Picturesque Europe, Cassell, Petter and Galpin’s richly illustrated Victorian travel book, which combined descriptive journeys with engravings on steel and wood. In Belgium and France, riverside buildings and streets at Bouillon and Sedan sit within their landscape, while the Vosges supply a mountain subject. A view from the Capuchin monastery at Amalfi looks down over the Italian coast, and a Swiss sheet records the Plan des Isles in the Ormont valley.

Bouillon, Sedan, the Vosges and the Amalfi coast are among the places engraved for Picturesque Europe, Cassell, Petter and Galpin’s richly illustrated Victorian travel book, which combined descriptive journeys with engravings on steel and wood. In Belgium and France, riverside buildings and streets at Bouillon and Sedan sit within their landscape, while the Vosges supply a mountain subject. A view from the Capuchin monastery at Amalfi looks down over the Italian coast, and a Swiss sheet records the Plan des Isles in the Ormont valley.

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