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 63 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_079.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 63 return to Signor Zocchi's studio, to admire many other beautiful works executed or in progress, amongst them a companion figure, of young Raphael sketching. This equally interesting work has, with the other, been reproduced as a statuette in terra cotta, and both are certain to become very popular in England, where they are sure to find their way, and we were glad to have the opportunity of introducing a friend who commissioned a life-size statue of the boy Michael Angelo in marble. The professor spoke to us in the highest terms of the industry and talents of a young Englishman, Mr. Robert Stark, of Torquay, at present studying in the Academy, and whose work is so original that it gives promise of future great success, and is the admiration of the other professors and students in the Academy. Signor Zocchi said that if Mr. Stark had arrived in time to enter into competition for the prize of 500 francs and the gold medal offered by the Academy, he would certainly have carried them off. We next visited the studio of Signor Albano, a young Sicilian sculptor of |