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 106 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_125.jpg |
Transcript | 106 THE RETURN, hour scores of gondolas were silently moving along or waiting with their occupants to hear the first strains of music at the Caffe Royal, which is situate close to the Grand Canal, and has an excellent stringed band. Having considerable time to spare before the train started for Munich, we made use of it in again visiting some of the smaller but more picturesque canals. A young moon shone, but we had to show the usual lamp at night, since some of these canals are so narrow, and the palaces and other buildings so high, that the gloom seems intense. In passing by one of these grand old palaces, now empty, except an upper room used by an artist friend for his studio, and who had invited us to view his pictures, we landed and had the opportunity of going through this home of departed grandeur. The rooms, of immense proportions, especially the ball-room, which was richly decorated on the walls and ceilings with the usual mythological subjects, all wore a sad, deserted look. We could not help picturing to ourselves the grand receptions— the gaiety, fashion, heart winning, and heart |