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 115 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_134.jpg |
Transcript | THE RHINE. \\l for the night, coffee was taken at the Cafe de Paris, which is considered the first establishment in Mayence. An excellent band performed a selection of dance music, in a style that seemed to lift you off your feet, to the very perfection of good time. Having to be on board the steamer at six o'clock the following morning, we were glad to retire early, and now we are enjoying the change on a fine Rhine boat, with a splendid day and most refreshing breeze, in delightful contrast with the close hot railway carriages we have been shut up in night and day for most of the week past. Steaming along on this portion of the Rhine the scenery is very fine, with its ruined castles—far more interesting than they were in the clays when their robber owners held possession. And now we are passing the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein with its commanding position, and soon after the tower of Cologne Cathedral is seen. Slowly steaming down the river we obseive that the houses, the railway station, and bridge are decorated with flags, and almost every roof has a colour displayed; guns are being fired ; we cannot |