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INTERIOR OF SAN MARCO, VENICE.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 84. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 27, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2097.

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(1877). Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 84. Exotic Impressions, Views of Foreign Lands. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2097

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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
Creator (Local)	Rothwell, Selim
Contributor (Local)	Pendleton, J. Greer
Publisher	Daily Chronicle
Date	1877
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Artists
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Rome, Italy Florence, Italy Venice, Italy
Genre (AAT)	books plates (illustrations) illustrations (layout features)
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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

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Title	Page 84
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Transcript	84 VENICE. ting, called a mosquito curtain, we hope to lie as still as a gravestone and sleep in peace for one night at least. During the many exceedingly hot days we have managed to keep cool at work in the grand old St. Mark's Church. This strangely wonderful piece of architecture of the Greek and Byzantine type, begun in the year 976 and finished in 1071, is surely old enough, but it has grown more beautiful with age ; inside and out it is covered with pictures in Mosaic, chiefly representing events in the life of Christ, and of many saints unheard of in Protestant England. There is an immense profusion of beautiful Oriental marbles and bas-reliefs in bronze, every portion of the walls being covered; the groundwork is of gold, whilst the tesselated pavement has led some to suppose, from its undulating surface, that it is intended to represent the waves of the sea, but we should imagine it is caused by the giving way of the ground after so many centuries; in this, as in almost every