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 66 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_083.jpg |
Transcript | 6S VENICE. flies flitted past, lighting up the sides of the railway. The line to Bologna, which we had previously travelled over, is very romantic, and runs for many miles through a mountainous country ; and at the time of our last visit the railway was most seriously injured by the floods, which had washed away bridges and portions of the line for many miles, hundreds of workmen being employed to repair the damage. Innumerable tunnels have to be gone through, and the noise and excitement kept us awake until we arrived at Bologna, about 12 15 p.m. This large, wealthy, and ancient city was all in gloom, but we had spent some days there years ago, and seen its Cathedral, Basilica, and wondrous leaning towers, with its beautiful Campo Santo, a short distance from the city, filled with exquisite memorial sculpture ; the darkness which novv prevailed, during an hour's stay at the station—one of the finest in Italy, Milan excepted—precluded our doing any sight-seeing in our tedious brief sojourn. Here numbers of trains are divided and despatched for Milan, Turin, and other direc- |