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 79 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_096.jpg |
Transcript | VENICE. 79 Close to the right stands the grand old ducal palace, with its beautiful arcades and the richly carved capitals of the columns, every one being exquisite in design and of different pattern from the rest. A portion of the left corner of the building is supposed to have given way, and is at present undergoing repair ; near it stand the two red granite pillars bearing the famous winged bronze lion of St. Mark, and the Statue of St. Theodore, patron saint of the city, with his crocodile, whilst on the right is the Bridge of Sighs, leading to the fatal prison. Immediately opposite, on a small island, stands St. Giorgio Maggiore, with its fine campanile, almost rivalling the celebrated one in the Grand Square of St. Mark. This, with San Giorgio a little lower down, also on the opposite side of the Grand Canal the Lido in the distance—the lagoons covered with innumerable craft— all this magnificent view is seen from our room, and in the early morning sun is a sight never to be forgotten. If anything can equal it in beauty it is Venice by |