French Pictures

Woodcutters in the Ardennes, basalt scenery on the Ardèche and the cathedrals of Chartres and Rouen feature in these prints ...

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Woodcutters in the Ardennes, basalt scenery on the Ardèche and the cathedrals of Chartres and Rouen feature in these prints from French Pictures, Samuel Gosnell Green's Victorian tour of France. The Religious Tract Society published the book in 1878 as French Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, with illustrations by English and foreign artists. Parisian bridges and monuments share its pages with Blois and the churches of Auvergne, the coast of Quiberon and Alpine and Pyrenean views of peaks, gorges and travellers preparing for mountain excursions.

Woodcutters in the Ardennes, basalt scenery on the Ardèche and the cathedrals of Chartres and Rouen feature in these prints from French Pictures, Samuel Gosnell Green's Victorian tour of France. The Religious Tract Society published the book in 1878 as French Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, with illustrations by English and foreign artists. Parisian bridges and monuments share its pages with Blois and the churches of Auvergne, the coast of Quiberon and Alpine and Pyrenean views of peaks, gorges and travellers preparing for mountain excursions.