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 77 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_094.jpg |
Transcript | VENICE. 77 Venice.—No. II. fHE long night journey from Florence to Venice, which we attempted to sketch in our last Scrap, with its accompanying excitement and loss of rest, caused us to seek early repose, that we might be able to commence earnest work the following day. No rocking was required to induce sleep, and we awoke thoroughly refreshed about six o'clock. Upon opening our sun shutters, what a brilliant sight lay stretched out before us ; the quay of the Grand Canal, at this comparatively early hour, crowded with figures; sailors at work on board their picturesque coasting vessels, with some sacred emblem or other design painted on the prow, whilst the sails of rich yellows, reds, or browns, arranged themselves naturally into harmonious colour, many of them being also painted with a cross or sun upon them. The whole effect could not fail to charm the most uneducated eye, though the observer might be unable to discern the |