Title | Scraps from an artist's sketchbook |
Alternative Title | Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton |
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Publisher | Daily Chronicle |
Date | 1877 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DG427 .R68 1877 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b2395052~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_003 |
Title | Page iv |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_007.jpg |
Transcript | INTRODUCTION. fHE following Letters, under the title of "Scraps from an Artist's Sketch Book," were written (luring- a recent tour in Italy. and are now republished at the request of many esteemed friends, who read them with some interest in the local paper in which they originally appeared, though they certainly would never have been c issued in their present form had it not bees through their solicitation, since the letters can boast of no literary merit, being merely the impressions created by a picturesque view of the various scenes observed. The least artistic mind could scarce !\ Borne, Florence, and Venice, without feeling some of the poetic influences of these grei cities of the past. The succession of daily work for the pencil left little time for the exercise of the pen; the sketches to be |