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 48 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_063.jpg |
Transcript | 48 FLORENCE. such a cathedral with apparently so few worshippers. The whole country around is volcanic and very beautiful from this elevated spot, and the views are charming, but time only permitted of our making a hasty sketch of the main street, and we had to be fetched away to take our place in the omnibus in order to catch the train for Florence. Here in the beautiful Villa Flora, Bella Sguardo, for the present our home, the view from the garden terrace is perhaps unequalled. The whole of fair Florence lies at our feet, whilst above rise in their full grandeur the majestic Apennines. Well does it deserve the title of the flower of cities, and the city of flowers. The Duomo and the Campanile of Giotto rise in the centre of the view, whilst Santa Croce is seen a little to the right. Here at peace lie some of the great ones of the earth, Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Alfieri, and the astronomer Galileo, whose watch tower is close by on an adjoining hill, and here it was that the great man studied the heavens and made those discoveries for which he was |