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 25 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_037.jpg |
Transcript | ROME. with the most inl subjects for th we have had (he opportunity of nmny beautiful bits of old Rome I have escaped our observati We together the Protestanl burial ground wh so many of our countrymen are in their last sleep, and reverently plucked a flower from the grave of close to the pyramid of Caius Cestius in old cemetery we stood by where there has recently I a monument, with a medallion p poet, designed and by Mr. John Warrington seclusion of (lie spot selected for thi of tombs cannot fail to inspire a feeli melancholy, and it- i striking contrast with the massive monuments of the ancient Romans which overlook it. Having received a con drawing of the a \ of Claud' the grandest ruins ou : —originally it was more than L6 miles in length we were fortunate in a most loi |