Chinese Empire illustrated, 19th C

Pavilion of the Star of Hope, Tong Chow (?).

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

George Newenham Wright (c. 1794–1877) was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman. He was born in Dublin; his father, John Thomas Wright was a Doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St Mary Woolnoth, London.

By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor with his wife. In 1861 he noted having a number of pupils boarding with him at Frome. By 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School

From the 1820s to the 1840s some minor topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy by Wright were published. 

List of works

·         Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin (Petrie, George, illustrator).

·         AGuide to the Lakes of Killarney

·         AGuide to the County of Wicklow

·         Ireland Illustrated

·         Scenes in North Wales. London: T. T. & J. Tegg; reissued: ISBN 978-0-217-54512-9

·         China (Allom, Thomas, illustrator) London: Fisher, Son & Co.

·         The Chinese Empire illustrated. London : London Printing & Publishing Co., [1858, 59.]

Boudoir and bed-chamber of a lady of rank.

An itinerant doctor at Tien-Sing (Tianjin).

Showroom of a lantern merchant at Beijing.

The cabinet of oriental entomology, 19th C

Ceylon tree nymph (Idea iasonia).

All illustrations of this post from "The cabinet of oriental entomology" as found on archive.org which is one of my last-recent favorite sources... (direct link to the book provided)

John Obadiah Westwood (1805 – 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests. He became a curator and later professor at Oxford University, having been nominated by this friend and patron the Reverend Frederick William Hope, whose donation was the basis of the Hope Collection at Oxford. He was also a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Westwood was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Entomological Society of London (1852–1853).

Among the prominent writers and naturalists he associated with was James Rennie, whom he assisted in the editing of Gilbert White's The Natural Historyand Antiquities of Selborne in 1833.

 

Hestia hypermnestra (Idea hypermnestra).

Bacteria sarmentosa (Phryganistria virgea).

Picturesque travel through Germany, 19th C

Hamburg, from Voyage pittoresque en Allemagne (Picturesque travel through Germany)

Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808 - 12 October 1892) was a French author born in Pontarlier, city famous for the production of absinthe until its prohibition in 1915. Xavier had a great passion for traveling, and combined this passion with literature. After journeying around Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America. 

In 1870 he was elected to the Academy (Seat #31), and he was for many years prominently identified with the Sainte-Geneviève library. He did much to encourage the study of Scandinavian literature in France, publishing translations of Holberg, Oehlenschlager and others. He died in Paris in 1892.

Lübeck, from Voyage pittoresque en Allemagne (Picturesque travel through Germany)

Wrocław, the city hall.

St. Lorenz church, Nuremberg.

Dresden.