Lugano San Mammete Tessin Switzerland – Vintage Wall Art
![Lugano San Mammete Tessin Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/119a6e9d06a2-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of Lugano San Mammete Tessin Switzerland brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lugano San Mammete Tessin Switzerland
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The title places this view at San Mamette, near Lugano in the Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton in southern Switzerland, where the lake and hillside villages drew travelers in the late nineteenth century. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that built up an image from several lithographic stones, each inked in a different color. The Detroit Publishing Company, which marketed these Swiss views in the United States, issued this example in its 1905 catalog of Switzerland scenes. The record dates the original photograph to roughly the 1890s, so the image shows the region as tourists of that decade would have seen it.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 6767. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 2,796 × 3,726 px · prints to 9 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2480_Lugano_San_Mammete_Tess_1890.tif-07817u |
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