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 14 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_024.jpg |
Transcript | 14 ROME. portrait busts, and a full length of Lady Greenall, with a favourite Scotch hound. We will now attempt to describe the immense statues commissioned by .Major Walker, late Mayor of Liverpool, and intended to adorn the exterior of the Pine Art Gallery which he has so nobly presented to the Corporation of that town. These figures represent Raphael and Michael Angelo. The latter, when placed, will be seated on the right, and the other on the left of and outside the entrance, and are nine feet high. The blocks of marble, roughly shaped at the quarries of 0 to lessen the weight of carriage, w fifteen tons; whilst the emblematic lh of Liverpool, with her attendant Li Bird, which will also be seated, is to be placed upon the pediment, and he in height about twelve feet. This block of marble weighs about twenty tons, and the carriage of these immense pieces caused a great sensation in passing through the street Rome. In addition to these great works, there are bas-relievos representing lour |