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 59 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_075.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 59 fered with by frequent showers of rain— many of them being entirely open to the sky, others partially so—which have prevented the performance. The season, though considered very fine for the country, has still been a wet one. We visited the Arena Nazionale, and saw Sardou's Ferreol, a play in five acts, admirably performed, and evidently a great favourite from the number of representations given and the great attention of the audience, who numbered some thousands on the evening we were present. We were strongly reminded of the Haymarket Company by the performance of one of the characters, and we could easily have imagined that Mr. Buckstone had come over for a holiday, only he happened to be taking a benefit in London about the time. We had also the pleasure of visiting, with a party of young friends, the Politiana, where an excellent equestrian company are at present going through the usual graceful feats of horsemanship ; two English clowns were evidently great favourites, and certainly, in comparison with their Italian brothers, they were really funny. We also visited the Goldoni Theatre, |