“Chinese cemetery.” Frontispiece. Page 5. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n5/mode/1up“The Woo Tang Mountains.” Page 12. Drawn by T. Allom. T. A. Prior, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n12/mode/1up“Hall of Audience, Palace of Yuen min Yuen, Peking.” Page 17. Drawn by T. Allom. E. Brandard, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n17/mode/1up“Landing Place and Entrance to the Temple of Honan, Canton.” Page 10. From a sketch on the spot by T. Varnham, Esquire and drawn by T. Allom. C. T. Dixon, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/10/mode/1up“The Proof-sword Rock, Hoo-kew-Shan.” Page 12. Drawn by T. Allom. J. Sands, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/12/mode/1upLadies of a Mandarin’s Family at Cards. Page 39 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n38/mode/1upDying and Winding Silk. Page 51 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n51/mode/1upCap Vendor’s Shop, Canton. Page 94 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n94/mode/1upGreat Temple at Honan, Canton.Page 132 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n132/mode/1upKite Flying at Hae-kwan, on the Ninth Day of Ninth Month. Page 149 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n132/mode/1upArrival of Marriage Presents at the Bridal Residence. Page 190 of Thomas Allom’s “China, in a series of views: displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. ” J. Sanders, engraver after a drawing by T. Allom. Published in London in 1843. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chinainseriesofv3to4allo/page/n190/mode/1up
Thomas Allom was a an English architect, artist and topographical illustrator who lived from 1804 to 1872. He Illustrated a great many travel books, including this one.
F. B. Spilsbury was a surgeon with the British army so these are engravings made from drawings he did while in Syria and the Holy Land when it was part of the Ottoman Empire and ruled from Constantinople (Istanbul). At that time the Holy Land (now Israel, the west bank and Gaza) which was the Palestinian eyelet of province along with Jordan, Lebanon and Syria made up the Ottoman province of Syria which was governed from Beirut.
Lions and lion tamer. Page 8. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n8/mode/1upBears. Page 11. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n11/mode/1upMonkeys, birds and prairie dogs. Page 15. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n15/mode/1upCats and rabbits. Page 16. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n16/mode/1upPage 19 from P. T. Barnum and Sarah J. Burke’s P.T. Barnum’s Menagerie. Published in 1888 in New York by White and Allen. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n19/mode/1upPage 20 from P. T. Barnum and Sarah J. Burke’s P.T. Barnum’s Menagerie. Published in 1888 in New York by White and Allen. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n20/mode/1upPage 23 from P. T. Barnum and Sarah J. Burke’s P.T. Barnum’s Menagerie. Published in 1888 in New York by White and Allen. Collections of the San Francisco Public Library. California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/ptbarnumsmenager00barn/page/n23/mode/1up
“Ruins of the fort at Juanpore on the River Goomtee,” taken from “Twenty Four Views in Saint Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt.” Published in 1809. Image source bl.uk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Salt-05.jpg“View near Point de Galle, Ceylon” from “Twenty Four Views in Saint Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt.” Published in 1809. Image source: bl.uk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years agovia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Salt-08.jpg“Riacotta in the Baramahal,” Plate 12 of Henry Salt’s “Twenty Four Views in Saint Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt.” Published in 1809. Image source: europeana.eu. In the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riacotta_in_the_Baramahal.jpg
