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 5 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_014.jpg |
Transcript | ROME. 5 also, which, instead of crystals, had Looking glasses with small holes sufficient for the wearer to see through—some hundreds thus decked out according to the fancy, ire cannot say taste, of the wearer; and a1 the close of the procession a large wagon draw n by gaily-decked beautiful cream-coloured oxen, brought the god Bacchus with his attendants. Altogether, it was a sight worth seeing, though rather, to our mind. suggestive of the Knott Mill Pair line of business. Still, it showed how, after some months of close application in preparing their works for the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy, the artists r< la \ themselves. A number of sports and games followed, and the whole concluded, as is usual in I hi-land with a good dinner and plenty of lion Italian wine. Before speaking of the studios visited, I may mention that the treatment of many English painters resident here by the council of the Royal Academy has been frequently spoken about at the artN |