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 88 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_106.jpg |
Transcript | 88 VENICE. Venice.—No. III. "Xfo^HAT with festas, serenatas, and ^Xlt religious ceremonies, Venice has indeed been all excitement for a week past. On Saturday last crowds of country people dressed in their holiday attire were to be seen along the quays and the Piazza Saint Marco, having come into the city to attend the Eesta of II Redentore on the following morning, a religious ceremony in commemoration of the deliverance from the plague in the fifteenth century. To prepare themselves for this event it appears necessary for these pilgrims to go over in boat loads to the Lido, imbibe a large quantity of wine or beer, and, if sufficiently wide awake, to remain on the island and see the sun rise, or return at all hours of the morning, yelling out portions of boisterous songs. We can vouch for this, which was anything but agreeable, our apartments being almost |