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TEMPLE OF VESTA, AND HOUSE OF RIENZI, ROME.

OLD HOUSES IN THE GHETTO, ROME.

THE ARCH OF TITUS, ROME.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 33. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 7, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2042.

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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
Creator (Local)	Rothwell, Selim
Contributor (Local)	Pendleton, J. Greer
Publisher	Daily Chronicle
Date	1877
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Artists
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Rome, Italy Florence, Italy Venice, Italy
Genre (AAT)	books plates (illustrations) illustrations (layout features)
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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

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Title	Page 33
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Transcript	ROME. Rome.—No. V. fT requires some courage to sit out in the sun for hours sketching in the streets of Rome, and it also requires a stolid indifference to all the surroundings. The most objectionable of these are the boys and the smells in some of the most picturesque part of the city, to wit, the Ghetto, or Jews' Quarter. It is said to be the healthiest portion of the city in spite of the crowded state of the streets, but must have been in a sad condition in 1876, when the Tiber overflowed its banks and flooded every portion of it to the height of the first floor. Here having found two subjects that we wished to secure, we placed our sketching seat and commenced work, but had scarcely done so when we were surrounded by a set of young blackguards that nothing would induce to move ; they swarmed like the flies upon us, and we had to give it up the first day, fairly beaten off as we had once been at Prague, in the Jews'