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 101 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_120.jpg |
Transcript | THE RETURN. 101 would not be considered proper in correct society. If so, then correct society loses much of the enjoyment of life. When the reserve of the correct thing is thrown aside, and the open, true-hearted, and generous disposition of the brotherhood of artists, authors, and musicians comes to the front— which we have invariably found through many years' experience it is sure to do— then we learn something of the element which mixes so strongly in the enjoyment of these social gatherings. Though we have had to submit to the usual annoyances which need not be particularised here, since all travellers have had the same experience, we left Venice with much regret, for still there is that about this City of the Sea which makes it seem especially built and designed for pleasure. In the early days of the Republic it made a grand position among the nations, it was renowned for the bravery and commercial enterprise of its citizens ; in its mellow age it is a place of rest and enjoyment. To any who have not |