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 116 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_135.jpg |
Transcript | 116 COLOGNE. learn the cause for a time; and naturally come to the conclusion that it is another festa. Having two hours to stay at Cologne, we start at once for the Cathedral, which has still its scaffolding round its tower, and seems to have made very little progress towards completion since we saw it four years ago. In a few hundred years more, perhaps, this richly decorated building will be completed. The two large pictures by Rubens have been removed to undergo the process of restoration, which is too often devastation. The lines of the architecture in the interior are very fine, though the general effect is not so striking as that of Milan Cathedral. Upon coming out and making our way to the bookstall of the railway station, we observed a great crowd at the large hotel opposite, and had the opportunity of seeing the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia drive off in their open carriage, amidst the shouts and hurrahs of a loyal people. Our Royal Princess looked charming, and both were evidently well pleased with their people's attentions, and repeatedly acknowledged the same. The |