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 69 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_086.jpg |
Transcript | VENICE. 69 city in the world where a painter of architectural subjects can find so much on which to employ his pencil. Here we landed, leaving our luggage in charge of the gondolier, whilst we partook of breakfast. After a refreshing meal we again started, and were rowed through a succession of the small canals. These are most interesting, and many noble buildings are to be found in these narrow ways, some of them strangely altered by their present occupants, but wearing still a solemn dignified look. Every turn, right and left, disclosed a picture, until it became bewildering to make choice of a subject. A few spots were noted down for another visit. At length we selected apartments at the Casa Fabris, Riva dei Selnavoni, looking out on the grand canal and immediately opposite San Giorgio—a splendid view overlooking the gardens, fortifications, and church of San Niccolo on the Lido, a small island on the lagoon in the distance, but of easy access by steamer or gondola, and much visited by the Venetians and strangers for its delightful sea-bathing, and which we have thoroughly |