The young kingdom · Travellers
An English book shows the marsh of Lerna
1839? Probable
Christopher Wordsworth's illustrated book on Greece, first published around 1839, includes a wood engraving of the 'Lernæan Marsh': water, plain and mountains, with travellers and a mule in the foreground. It is one of the earliest printed views of the landscape around Myloi.
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Wood engraving 'Lernæan Marsh': the marsh of Lerna with water, plain and mountains, and travellers with a mule in the foreground. Christopher Wordsworth, 'Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical' (John Murray, London)
Sources
- C. Wordsworth, Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, John Murray, London (1882 edition; design probably c. 1839)
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