2-981-836 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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.