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 38 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_051.jpg |
Transcript | 38 ROME. but reverently bowing or wondering at the sight. Charming studies of the beautiful women of Capri, who have figured in many an English artist's picture, were hung on the walls, with rich artistic surroundings of furniture, dresses, glass, porcelain, and tapestry. Almost every artist's studio in Rome is of immense size, and their treasures are so rich and abundant that it would take days to study them. Having been introduced to Mr. Morris Moore, who formerly followed art as a profession, we asked his permission to be allowed to see the Raphael in his possession, which he readily granted. A day having been fixed, we, accompained by a friend, visited his house, when we were ushered into a room by his attendant: we found ourselves opposite a splendid portrait, by Titian, of some great naval commander whose name is lost, but the artist's name lives ; the portrait was full of life, the head and hands beautifully painted, the armour real, and the whole broad and grandly treated. It was in its original richly |