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 41 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_055.jpg |
Transcript | ROME. 41 Rome.—No. VI. T length the time had arrived for our quitting Rome, it having become too hot for us ; and had the Italian Government seen through our designs (artistic) we might have been ordered away weeks before, since we have carried off, without their knowledge, a few of the grand old remains of this wonderful city of the past—amongst others, the Triumphal Arch of Titus, with the Temple of Peace and an adjoining Church ; also, the Temple of Vesta, with the house of Cola di Rienzo, the last of the Tribunes; the Portico of Octavia Augustus, now the site of the Fish Market; the Ripetta, with its beautiful flight of steps descending to the ferry across the Tiber ; and a fine old ruin called the Trophies of Marius. These spoils, with many others, we hope to turn to good account on our return. Before leaving Rome we had the opportunity of viewing an immense picture painted |