Italian castles and country seats
A 1911 American travel book by Tryphosa Bates Batcheller, published in New York by Longmans, Green, describing visits to Italian castles, villas and their owning families for English-speaking readers. Plates mix soft watercolour views of hill towns, lakeside towers and coastal forts with reproductions of Renaissance frescoes, offering muted washed landscape backgrounds, silhouetted battlements and crowded ceremonial figure groups.
