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 3 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_012.jpg |
Transcript | ROME. 3 quiet street we entered a vasl Lobby, provided with hat and cloak rooms, and ascended the staircase, passing the billii room, and were ushered into a 1 all. decorated with very clever scenic pi< ti- of events which had made former festii memorable. The Committee who had undertaken the arrangements for the procession to start at eleven o'clock on Mono morning were completing their work. The crowds in this and the adjoining hall were all discussing the prospects of a line < this being an item that cannot well I out, when all are expected to deck themselves in theatrical disguise. iring arranged with two artist friends to attend the meeting, we left Rome at 6 30 a.m.. i trains being inconveniently far 1 stop at this sort of roadside station, and the authorities had not announced thai a train starting at eleven o'clock would be allow to deposit passengers there. JI«> \\ found subjects for our pencil in the neighbourhood, the day being gloriously One, and, though fearfully hot—the little wind hoi |