Tag: Italian scenery

Alpine pass of Bramante. Italian scenery from drawings made in 1817 by Elizabeth Frances Batty. Le Grand Lac Bramant is a lake in Savoie.

Italy. View of Tivoli from the Temple of Vesta. Italian scenery 1817.

Tivoli, the ancient Tibur, is eighteen miles to the east from Rome, romantic in its waters, its hills, its herbage, or its ruins.

The sites of the numerous villas which once overhung every point of the romantic dells of Tivoli must be in great measure imaginary

St. Elmo. From this spot the forked top of Vesuvius is perhaps more intelligible than upon a nearer inspection.

Morra is a traditional game using the hands, which is known especially in some Mediterranean countries, especially in Italy.

Marchands de sorbets à Florence, 1840. “Voyage d’Italie, partie septentrionale” di Paul De Musset.

Isabella d’Este known as The First Lady of the Renaissance with a balzo, the famous Capigliari headdress.

Girl in the costume from the Ampezzothal Dolomites,-painting by Emil Teschendorf.

A female of Vercelli, Piedmontese. This one of the most peculiar head-dresses belonging to the lower orders in Italy.

AT Turin the dress of the females is very remarkable. The elaborate and various forms of their caps are singular and picturesque.