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 51 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_066.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 51 in every line of his face is evidently enjoying the fine flavour of the vintage, and we feel certain is at the same time paying compliments to the fair beauty. Both faces are full of meaning, and we have rarely seen any modern work so full of humour, broad, but refined, and with the most exquisite finish. Another work in progress was the most opposite in subject, and though only just commenced, we could see from the studies and sketches that it would when completed prove a most important picture—" The Duel." This gloomy subject represents the action as taking place on a wild sea shore, with a threatening mysterious sky; the combatants, with swords, have commenced their deadly combat, and we feel from the action and energy of the figures that the whole affair will be carried out to the bitter end. There is such knowledge and power in these works that many of his artistic friends regret Signor Vinea has given up the higher walks of art, having shown such great promise as an historical painter. Like many others, he could not always readily dispose of works of large |