Still water mirrors a dancing stone fountain at the Villa Torlonia in Frascati — or rather, "Roma," as the sender "Onkel Isidor" has crossed out the printed "Frascati" caption and corrected it in ink, dating the card 16 February 1898 from Rome during the same Italian winter journey that produced the Caracalla card posted nine days earlier. Isidor tells his niece Jenny that he has just sent a book to Alice, that he is departing for Florence tomorrow, that he has been well, and that he will send a few lines again from Venice — a thumbnail diary of a cultured German traveler moving methodically through Italy's art cities. The image (Stengel & Co., Dresden, no. 11122) renders the Villa Torlonia's upper basin with the delicate tonal precision that made Stengel the pre-eminent publisher of Italian views in the 1890s, here showing the balustraded terrace reflected in the pool with tall umbrella pines beyond. Franked with a 10-centesimi Umberto I stamp and cancelled ROMA 16.4.98, it arrived in Berlin NW 40 on 18 February.