The following TFAO photo library image allows viewers of the image of the painting Lake Maggiore, Italy by Sanford Robinson Gifford, seen on the previous page, to compare a photographic image with the artist's interpretation of the scene.

(above: Lake Maggiore from Passenger Cabin of Aerial Tramway at Stresa, Italy, May, 2013. Photo by John Hazeltine)

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