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 61 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_077.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 61 scape with architectural subjects, sea views, and flowers, in oil and water colour, each in turn are represented with truthfulness and grace ; whilst as an etcher, his works of most important size are perhaps unrivalled by any of our English school. Several of his most recent works are now exhibiting in the Royal Academy, and the Black and White Exhibition at the Dudley Gallery, Pall Mall. To all who take an interest in the revival of etching in England, we would heartily commend these beautiful specimens of a most delightful art, which more than any other style of reproduction gives the artist's own feeling and ideas of his subject. And now for a few Scraps relating to the studios of the artists we have already visited. Signor Zocchi, the professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Florence, obtained the gold medal at the Vienna Exhibition for his fine statue of Michael Angelo, when a boy, carving the celebrated mask of a fawn. The story which suggested this beautiful work is that the boy Angelo |