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 83 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_100.jpg |
Transcript | VENICE. 83 the different caffes in other parts of the city; whilst that ancient institution, the oracle of wit and humour, Punchinello, is banished altogether. Too often the Italian Punch conveyed a political meaning in his jokes, and the authorities could not afford to be laughed at; it was dangerous, so the baton or cudgel had to be resigned, and Punchinello was deposed. We should not be sorry if the groups of fellows who infest every public place could also be banished to one of the small islands. They come offering for sale their cheap jewelry and cameos, beads and shell ornaments, photographs and matches, and seize upon the Forestieri, under which grand title Englishmen are included, and are almost as difficult to get quit of as the mosquitoes—these, by-the- bye, are particularly attentive at present, yet are as difficult to find as a policeman when wanted. They, too, are of the invisible, and it is only when you seek repose that their trumpet note calls you up to battle. Here we draw the curtain, and having provided ourselves with a thin net- |