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 35 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_048.jpg |
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 |