Lugano the quay and San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland – Vintage Wall Art
![Lugano the quay and San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/9739c23b0b42-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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Lugano the quay and San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lugano the quay and San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland
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Lugano's lakefront and the peak of Monte San Salvatore rising behind it are the focus of this view of the Ticino town on Lake Lugano, in Switzerland's Italian-speaking south. The picture is a photochrom, a color process developed in Zürich in the 1880s that combined photography with hand-retouched stone lithography, and it was sold in America by the Detroit Publishing Co. Such views were popular with tourists and armchair travelers in the 1890s and early 1900s, when rail and steamer routes were bringing visitors to Alpine lakes in growing numbers. The catalog listing places the print in the company's 1905 Switzerland series.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 6889. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,695 × 2,775 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2484_Lugano_the_quay_and_San_1890.tif-07809u |
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