World Pictures, with illustrations by Mortimer Menpes, showcases the artist’s journeys through Europe, Asia, and beyond. Featuring Menpes’s own paintings and observations, the book presents vivid scenes of local life, architecture, and landscapes, blending travel narrative with artistic commentary. The book features text by daughter Dorothy Menpes and was published by Adam & Charles Black.
This download features the 100 pictures from the book plus the front cover in JPEG format, scanned by us from an original edition of the book. They are all 600dpi and range in size from 3056 pixels wide/tall to 6480 pixels wide/tall.
Around half of the pictures are in colour whilst the other half are in black and white/half-tone.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
The pictures in our collections are out of copyright in the United States, the UK, Canada, most of Europe, Australia and all countries that follow the lifetime plus 70 years rule. Read our blog post about public domain copyright rules for more information.
