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GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY FROM VILLA FLORA, BELLA SCUARDO, FLORENCE.

JEWELLERS SHOPS ON THE PONTE VECCHIO, FLORENCE.

STREET VIEW, WITH OLD COLUMN, FLORENCE.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 62. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 18, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2074.

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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
Creator (Local)	Rothwell, Selim
Contributor (Local)	Pendleton, J. Greer
Publisher	Daily Chronicle
Date	1877
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Artists
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Rome, Italy Florence, Italy Venice, Italy
Genre (AAT)	books plates (illustrations) illustrations (layout features)
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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

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Title	Page 62
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Transcript	62 FLORENCE. was working in the Palace Gardens of the Medici, as a mason's assistant, and having found a piece of old marble, a portion of a balustrade, with a shield upon it, which had been thrown aside, commenced cutting out this mask, and was thus found employed by Lorenzo de Medici, who at once saw the great talent of young Angelo, took him under his charge, and gave him his son as a companion, and from this fostering care rose the genius who created the Moses and the David, works which it is impossible for us to write upon ; any words we could use would fall so short of giving an idea of their power and grandeur. The David formerly stood at the door of the Palazzio Vecchio. It was thought to be suffering from long exposure to the weather, and was removed to the Gallery of Fine Arts, where we had the pleasure of seeing it a few days ago in a temporary building, but on the site it will in future occupy in a magnificent gallery, worthy of such a matchless production that will be looked at for all time as the greatest work of the sculptor, who alone rivalled Phidias. With this digression we