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 97 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_116.jpg |
Transcript | VENICE. 97 reversed the rudder when within five or six yards of a collision. Luckily we just escaped; the Venezia and other newspapers of the following morning made some severe comments on this occurrence. The display of fireworks and representation of the battle were a great success. Three bands of music were posted in different parts of the grounds attached to the gardens, which are of great extent and admirably adapted from their undulating character for a mimic display of warfare. Before the battle commenced the national airs of Prance, Austria, and Italy were played in succession, first preceded by solemn introductory music from the full bands; then were heard the trumpets of the Bersiglieri in quick march to the charge, and the defiant answer of the Austrians accepting the challenge. For a few moments all was silent as death, then the firing of a gun was the signal for the attack to commence. Piring of cannon, bursting of shells and maroons ; the horizontal rush of rockets from the opposing sides, mortars firing, and an infinity of blue lights; rockets |