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CHURCHES OF SAN GIORGIO AND SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE, ON THE GRAND CANAL, FROM THE PUBLIC GARDENS, VENICE.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 103. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 24, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2118.

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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 103, 1877, Exotic Impressions, Views of Foreign Lands, Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries, accessed February 24, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2118.

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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 103
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File Name	exotic_201304_003_122.jpg
Transcript	THE RETURN. 10o skies tempered by fine masses of clouds, making the day perfect, and giving quite an English feeling to the whole, as we steamed along the picturesque channel leading to Chioggia, passing numerous small islands— Albirone, Malomocco, Palestrina—each with numerous quaint buildings and most picturesque fishing boats. At length Chioggia is reached, after a most delightful sail of two hours and a half. We were followed from the steamer to the Hotel Luna by a crowd of boatmen, who were most anxious to secure us for a sail. There was no persuading them that we preferred taking lunch, having had enough of the water for a time. These fellows seemed to be jealous of each other, and it ended in their getting up a row amongst themselves instead of taking our party for a row. Three artist friends who were our compagnons de voyage each found a subject for a sketch; indeed, to a painter of boats we have never seen such endless studies, and the colour of the sails, most of them covered with some sacred design or emblem, was simply perfect. The day was altogether one