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OLD HOUSES IN THE GHETTO, ROME.

THE ARCH OF TITUS, ROME.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY FROM VILLA FLORA, BELLA SCUARDO, FLORENCE.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 42. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. May 12, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2052.

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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	42 ROME. by a young Polish artist, Signor Siemiradzki. This work is a wonderful effort, if not an entire success. Its title is the Flambeau of Nero. The grandeur of the design and composition rivets the spectator at once, and we cannot help feeling how weak in comparison are the attempts of most of our English artists, and how little they show the dignity and true greatness of art as the representative of the events, sacred and historical, that deserve to be perpetuated, in comparison with this grand effort of an artist only 33 years of age. The picture is exhibited in one of the galleries of the Academy of St. Luke. The composition consists of about two hundred figures on a flight of steps leading to an upper terrace of the Palace of Nero, which is crowded with Roman senators, with crowns of flowers, attended by musicians and dancing women. Here sits the tyrant in a palanquin of gold and mother-of-pearl, which has been carried by four black slaves, and placed in the most commanding position that he may enjoy the feast of horrid cruelty which is just commencing. Day is closing, and to the right are