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 49 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_064.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 49 rewarded in a prison. On the hills all around are beautiful villas, and the slopes covered with vineyards and fields of corn now ready for the sickle. The harvest will be one of the best they have had for years. The two last years' crops of corn, grapes, and olives have been excellent, and the promise this year is even greater, so that it is expected, though the people are heavily taxed, that they will be comparatively rich, and it is hoped that the Government will be able to resume a gold and silver currency instead of paper; all payments being now made with notes, except small sums in copper, as for a cigar, an omnibus, or a newspaper. Villa Flora is not without great interest to an artist, for it was here that RafFaelle Morghen, the greatest line engraver who ever lived, and whose works are so eagerly sought after by connoisseurs, produced his unequalled Rapi plates, now of such great value. His old friend, Signor Rapi, the then proprietor of the villa, had been dead some years, when it was purchased by its present possessor and our kind host, and here it has been our privilege to meet |