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

Harry Fenn

Harry Fenn was an English-born American illustrator, primarily of landscapes.He settled in Montclair, New Jersey around 1865. Fenn and is best known for the engravings he contributed to Picturesque Europe, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt and "Picturesque America"...

, William Henry James Boot

William Henry James Boot

William Henry James Boot was an English oil and watercolour artist, illustrator and author.He was born in Manchester, England, going on to exhibit at the Royal Academy in London and becoming a member of the Royal Society of British Artists . He was also a member of The Arts Club, who listed him as...

, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham

Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham

Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham , Irish watercolour landscape and marine artist and lithographer, was the son of the watercolour artist, Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham . He was trained by his father and first did serious work in 1847 on a sketching trip to Wales...

 (1823–1875), Henry Towneley Green

Henry Towneley Green

Henry Towneley Green R.I. , was an English watercolour painter and illustrator who exhibited from 1855 at the Royal Academy and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He became a member of the New Watercolour Society in 1879. He was the brother of Charles Green R.I. , a leading illustrator...

 (1836–1899), Myles Birkett Foster, John Mogford (1821–1885), David Hall McKewan (1816–1875), William Leighton Leitch

William Leighton Leitch

William Leighton Leitch was a master Scottish landscape watercolour painter and illustrator. He was Drawing Master to Queen Victoria for 22 years...

 (1804–1883), Edmund Morison Wimperis

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Edmund Morison Wimperis , was an English wood-engraver and watercolour painter and member of The Arts Club....

 (1835–1900) and Joseph B. Smith (1798–1876). A companion set, Picturesque America

Picturesque America

Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant , who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and...

, was published about the same time and dealt with popular places in the United States

United States

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Volume One

• Normandy and Brittany, Godfrey Wordsworth Turner
• The Italian Lakes, T.W. 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
  William Mattieu Williams
  William Mattieu Williams was an English writer on science and educator.-Life:The son of Abraham Williams, a fishmonger in London, and his wife Louise, daughter of Gabriel Mattieu, a Swiss refugee, he was born in London on 6 February 1820. He lost his father in infancy, and his mother married again...
  
  
• 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.