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 10 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_020.jpg |
Transcript | 10 ROME. prices that would rather astonish English managers and their supporters. We visited the Politiana, and were delighted with the performance of " Lucia di Lanimcrmoor ;" there were about 3000 present, the band was first-rate, and the admission a franc for a seat in the best part of the house. The opera was the only performance, and was over at 9 30—a far pleasanter arrangement than arriving at home about midnight. The Correa, or Summer Theatre, entirely open to the sky, was occupied by a very clever company of comedians, whose action and pantomime were so suggestive of words that we had little difficulty in interpreting their meaning. This theatre will hold many thousand spectators, and has had many actors upon its stage from the date of its foundation, B.C. 27, when it was built by Augustus as a mausoleum for his family, and adorned with a bronze statue of himself. Here his ashes and those of his family were deposited; it was afterwards converted into a fortress, then an amphitheatre for bull fights, and now it is the spacious home |