Title

Ross Castle (from "Picturesque Europe"), 1876. Creator: Josiah Wood Whymper.

Caption

Ross Castle (from "Picturesque Europe"), 1876. 'A new serial publication bearing this title has been commenced by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin... designed to present original descriptive and historical accounts of the most interesting places in Great Britain and Ireland, and in...the neighbouring Continent, with engravings, both on wood and on steel, from original views drawn by some of the best artists for landscape and architectural subjects...The wood engravings...are executed by Mr. Whymper in a style worthy of commendation...The precedence allowed to these subjects is a token of the genuine English feeling that should inspire an undertaking which aims at popular instruction and entertainment...We are permitted to borrow an Engraving, the view of Ross Castle [in Ireland]..."Picturesque Europe"...is to extend to sixty parts'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A81_038

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,1Mb (5,1Mb) / 16,5in x 11,1in / 4960 x 3320 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel exterior outdoors water building arts lake art book British geography castle color Ireland ruins medieval ruin fortifications fortification century Britain newspapers press print literature ruined Kerry series B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving Colour County Kerry 19th century black & white black and white B W mediaeval Munster Middle Ages white and black Ross Castle nineteenth century tourism 15th century The Print Collector fifteenth century geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper landscape wood engraving Cassell Josiah Wood Whymper Whymper Josiah Wood Whymper Joshia Wood Joshia Wood Whymper Petter and Galpin Josiah Wood Whimper Whimper Josiah Wood Picturesque Europe 19th-century partwork J. P. Skelton Skelton J. P.