People · 1807–1885
Christopher Wordsworth
English scholar, later bishop, author of a book on Greece
Wordsworth travelled in Greece in the 1830s; his illustrated book Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical includes an engraving of the Lernaean marsh.
Also written: Κρίστοφερ Γουέρντσγουερθ, Wordsworth
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1839?
An English book shows the marsh of Lerna
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…