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 68 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_085.jpg |
Transcript | 68 VENICE. Turner—the only artist who ever painted Venice as she traly is—come like a dream— There is a glorious city of the sea; The sea is in the broad and narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing, and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. Soon after six o'clock we arrived at the station. Not a cab to be seen, but plenty of gondolas ; and having hailed one, we started on a tour of inspection, before deciding upon our lodgings. An artist friend who accompanied us was our guide, philosopher, and friend; one who knows the " Stones of Venice" as well as Mr. Ruskin (the present being his twenty-fifth visit) ; he directed the gondolier to row us along the Grand Canal; the morning being young, the air was deliciously cool coming over the lagoons; and the numerous craft moving along with their picturesque boatmen—the rich-coloured sails—the constant change of objects—the noble palaces—the column of the Lion of St. Mark, and that of the patron Saint Theodore, on the grand square—compose a picture that is perfectly unique, and there is certainly no other |