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 33 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_046.jpg |
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' |