Content: Printed on border: "in fact be said to be rather too large, for at its lower extremity it is hard to think of it as a lake at all. It is thirty-seven miles in length, an opens out to a width of about fifteen miles between Peschiera and Desenzano, and is exposed to almost constant winds. The slight feeling of disappointment, caused by the too great expanse of water and the flatness of the land round the southern end of the lake, passes away as the steamer passes Cape San Vigilio and takes us toward Riva, at the upper extremity, where a visitor for the first time might be surprised to find himself on the soil of..."
Source Note: Picturesque Europe : a delineation by pen and pencil of the natural features and the picturesque and historical places of Great Britian and the Continent. (New York : Appleton, 1875-1879) Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), Author.

Physical Description

Wood engravings
Extent: 13 x 18 cm (9 x 7 1/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17112965
Barcode: 33333159476650
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0dc3e0a0-c53d-012f-717f-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1875

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Castle of Sermione, Lago di Garda" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1875. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0dc3e0a0-c53d-012f-717f-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1875). Castle of Sermione, Lago di Garda Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0dc3e0a0-c53d-012f-717f-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Castle of Sermione, Lago di Garda" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0dc3e0a0-c53d-012f-717f-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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