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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 35. 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 14, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2044.

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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 35
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Transcript	ROME. 35 known, and which are to be seen from this spot in all their grandeur and magnificence. We now enter the studio of Mr. Elihu Vedder, an American artist, very talented and of the most kind and genial disposition. The work he was engaged upon was that of a beautiful girl working upon a piece of tapestry. The design was simple and elegant, and the arrangement of colour excellent. It is no wonder his countrymen are proud of and readily purchase his works, so that very few of them are known in England, where they would stand their ground with those of some of our ablest men. Mr. Vedder is equally successful in landscape, and from his knowledge of the figure, is able to introduce figures with great advantage. A study in black and white for a picture he had painted of a storm in the Sabine Mountains was very fine in effect, and we were kindly presented with a large photo taken from this picture. We believe the artist is now in England for the purpose of studying our English school as represented by the Royal Academy, and also to obtain rest and