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2 unusual facts about Edmund Morison Wimperis


Edmund Morison Wimperis

Edmund Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835 Flocker's Brook, Chester - 25 December 1900 Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire), was an English wood-engraver and watercolour painter and member of The Arts Club.

They were close friends of Charles Kingsley of Water Babies fame, who at that time was canon of Chester Cathedral.


Picturesque Europe

The books depicted tourist haunts in Europe, with text descriptions and steel and wood engravings by eminent artists of the time, such as Harry Fenn, William Henry James Boot, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823–1875), Henry Towneley Green (1836–1899), Myles Birkett Foster, John Mogford (1821–1885), David Hall McKewan (1816–1875), William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835–1900) and Joseph B. Smith (1798–1876).


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