Sunday, May 3, 2015

Chinese Empire illustrated, 19th C

Pavilion of the Star of Hope, Tong Chow (?).

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

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Pavilion of the Star of Hope, Tong Chow (?).

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

George Newenham Wright (c. 1794–1877) was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman. He was born in Dublin; his father, John Thomas Wright was a Doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St Mary Woolnoth, London.

By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor with his wife. In 1861 he noted having a number of pupils boarding with him at Frome. By 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School

From the 1820s to the 1840s some minor topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy by Wright were published. 

List of works

·         Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin (Petrie, George, illustrator).
·         Ireland Illustrated
·         Scenes in North Wales. London: T. T. & J. Tegg; reissued: ISBN 978-0-217-54512-9
·         China (Allom, Thomas, illustrator) London: Fisher, Son & Co.
·         The Chinese Empire illustrated. London : London Printing & Publishing Co., [1858, 59.]



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Boudoir and bed-chamber of a lady of rank.

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

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Boudoir and bed-chamber of a lady of rank.
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An itinerant doctor at Tien-Sing (Tianjin).

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

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An itinerant doctor at Tien-Sing (Tianjin).
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Showroom of a lantern merchant at Beijing.

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

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Showroom of a lantern merchant at Beijing.