Castro Giovanni. The Ancient Enna
Italy
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| Type of print: | Steel engraving - Original vintage antique print | | Year of printing: | ca 1860 | | Artist - Engraver - Publisher: | Leitch - Sterling - The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited.
INVALID LINK to see more prints from the same source. | | Condition: | Excellent - Very good - Good - Fair. Light overall age toning of paper. Few very light brownish areas in bottom blank margin.
| Overall dimensions of print:
Dimensions of image:
| Including blank margins (not shown below): 9 x 12 1/2 inches.
(shown below): 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 NOTE: 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
| | Type of paper: | Thick - Heavier, wove - Medium heavy - Slightly heavier - Thin. | | Reverse side: | Blank - With text or pictures. | | Notes: | See shipping, returns, terminology, etc. at the bottom of page. | |
Description
of the subjects depicted in the print:
From the original description:
In the interior of Sicily, and as nearly as possible in the centre of the island, there rises a huge, isolated mats of limestone rock, with a flattened summit of considerable extent—an undulating expanse fashioned somewhat in the shape of a horse-shoe. Perched on this aerial summit, verily " a city set on a hill," is a considerable town, a town which veils, under its modem designation, a name familiar to all lovers of poetry. This is Castro Giovanni, the ancient Enna; the modern name being simply a corruption of Kasr Janni (Castrum Henna), the name given to the place by the Saracens after it became one of their strongholds in the ninth century A.D.
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