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OLD HOUSES IN THE GHETTO, ROME.

THE ARCH OF TITUS, ROME.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 39. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 16, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2048.

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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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Transcript	ROME. 30 ornamental carved frame, which had been sadly worm-eaten, but was now restored and re-gilt, a fit surrounding for so noble a work. Mr. Moore then led us into an inner room, where, placed on an easel, in a good light, was this small work of Raphael's, yet perhaps the greatest ever produced in the world— Apollo and Marsyas. The figure of Apollo standing with his lyre on the right of the picture is of the most perfect Greek type, finer, if possible, in drawing than the celebrated statue in the Vatican. The Sun God looks down with disdain upon his would-be rival, who, seated on a bank to the left, and with pipe in hand (a musical one), has challenged glorious Apollo. The defeated musician was, according to the terms of the agreement, to be flayed alive, and the vultures are seen descending to commence their work upon the unhappy Marsyas. This gem of art is in the most wonderful preservation, and in the early style of the artist. Some few artists have doubted its originality, but there is scarcely a great painter of the Italian, French, German, and English schools, who has not