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 22 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_033.jpg |
Transcript | 22 ROME. down old men and women without arms, legs, or noses ? No ! I goes in for the perfect figger, and likes the pure white marble, I do." We took leave of our American friend, very much entertained and pleased with our visit. We received manv kind invitations from other eminent artists, which we were compelled to decline, as we had received commissions to carry off some of the beautiful remains of old Rome; and to do this means work, so that we could only spare time to visit the most important- landscape, figure, and animal painters' studios. These we shall sketch in our next " Scraps," beginning with that of the most eminent and oldest resident artist amongst our countrymen settled in Rome—Penry Williams—a name known to art through his admirable pictures of the peasants of the Campagna, some of which have been purchased by Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales, and by other distinguished collectors. Many of them years ago were |