Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt was a lavishly illustrated set of books published by D. Appleton & Co. in the early 1880s based on their phenomenally successful Picturesque America and Picturesque Europe series. It was edited by Charles William Wilson, following his leadership of the seminal Ordnance Survey of Palestine and PEF Survey of Palestine. The Appleton series was issued as "two volumes or four divisions"; it was reprinted in London by J.S. Virtue & Co., simply published as four volumes.
Damascus Gate, the northern entrance to Jerusalem
The Cave under the Great Rock on Mount Moriah, within the Dome of the Rock (then known as the "Mosque of Omar")
The Interior of the Dome of the Rock
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John Douglas Woodward, usually simply J.D. or Douglas Woodward, was an American landscape artist and illustrator. He was one of the country's "best-known painters and illustrators". He produced hundreds of scenes of the United States, Northern Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, many of which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day.
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives from Picturesque Palestine.
City of Boston (From South Boston) from Picturesque America.
The Bosphorus, Constantinople, from Picturesque Europe.
Crescent Moon over Bridge, 1870; probably Virginia.