Sentence:  So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave <WSD>picture</WSD>. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,...a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An image; a representation as in the imagination.