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This is an image taken from Joseph and Elizabeth Robin Pennell's travel memoir 'Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy,' (1888) inspired by Laurence Sterne's earlier travel narrative of a similar title 'A Sentimental Journey through France…

This is an 1898 image from Ella Constance Sykes's travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle' of Qal'eh Dokhtar, a castle erected in 209 AD by Ardashir I in present-day Fars, Iran.

This is an engraved portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in traditional Turkish dress, by S. Hollyer and J. B. Wandesforde, c. 1717

This is a photograph and excerpt from British travel writer Ella Constance Sykes's 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'

This is a painting by Edwin Lord Weeks entitled 'Along the Ghats, Mathura (or Picture Of The Nile)' (c. 1880) depicting people bathing in the river and reclining on the ghats (steps) in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

This is a work by the Italian Orientalist painter Nicola Forcella, entitled 'Dans le souk aux cuivres' (c. 1868)

This is an image of the Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1879 painting "The Snake Charmer," an Orientalist painting.

This image is a watercolour print taken from William Gilpin's 1782 book Observations on the River Wye.

This is a 1750 painting of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews painted by Thomas Gainsborough, showing the recently married landed gentry couple standing before their newly acquired picturesque property.

This is an image of the title page to William Gilpin's book Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales, published in 1782.