Romantic Venice

Monotone steel engraving by Greatbach on thick wove paper, for "Picturesque Europe" (Bayard Taylor, ed.).

Sheet 230 x 310 mm, 9 x 12¼ ins.

Harry Fenn (1837 – 1911) was an English-born American illustrator, landscape painter, etcher, and wood engraver. From 1870 to c. 1895 he was the most prominent landscape illustrator in the United States. He is also noted for his illustrations of Egypt, Palestine and the Sinai.