America’s 1872 vision of Britain.

In the early 1870s the New York publisher, D. Appleton & Co. sent a group of the best illustrators in America to Europe for their Picturesque Europe Series.

Here’s how they saw the UK. A new country romancing the old.

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History, mythology, Orientalism and portraiture with a not so subtle dash of rampant sexuality. Jean-Léon Gérôme’s paintings had it all. No wonder he was “arguably the world’s most famous living artist by 1880.”

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