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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook

Page 104

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 104. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. October 27, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2119.

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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 104
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Transcript	104 THE RETURN. of thorough enjoyment to us and our artist friends. We have also visited Murano, which is on one of the islands near to Venice, and was in the loth century one of the most important places in Europe for the manufacture of glass, receiving exclusive privileges from the Senate; but now the people are principally employed in making beads, chiefly for the Eastern market; still there seems to be a chance of the ancient glories of the trade being revived. Signor Salviati has established works here, chiefly for the manufacture of high-class Venetian glass, consisting of the most elegantly-designed goblets, vases, and cups in every variety of exquisitely-coloured glass; and also for the revival of the almost extinct production of pictures in Mosaic, which certainly rival in brilliancy, if they do not surpass, those of the earliest times. We are informed that Mr. Layard is greatly interested in this establishment of modern glass-making. We also visited, on our way, the cemetery for Venice, near to the Church of San Michell, a dreary spot surrounded by the lagoons, which are excluded by a high wall. This