Nicolino Caylo’s pictorial souvenirs recorded sites popular with international tourists. This panorama of Paris and the valley of the Seine includes a tower called “The Lantern of Demosthenes.” Visitors climbed its internal staircase to take in the magnificent vista. Before coming to Baltimore, where he staged his first American exhibition in 1835, Caylo painted views not only of Paris, but also Granada, Rome, Athens, Palermo, Naples, and the Bay of Gibraltar. He told prospective customers that his works were “Original Paintings of Cities celebrated edifices, remarkable views, executed from drawings taken on the spot by himself,” but it is likely that he also used print sources to aid his memory. Once here, he applied this imposing large-scale format to detailed views of Baltimore and New York.