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 117 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_136.jpg |
Transcript | ROTTERDAM. 117 Royal Prince and his Princess were in perfectly plain costume. Here then was the cause of this extra display of bunting and constant firing of cannon. -*& We started from Cologne at seven o'clock p.m. for Rotterdam, and steamed along through the night, a perfectly lovely one, with the moon shining with beautiful effect upon the rippled water. At five o'clock we went on deck and found we were at Emmerich, a small village, where a large quantity of cheese was taken on board. Shortly after the Custom House station was reached, and here once more the searching process was gone through. Two picture frames which had escaped all the way from Florence were here declared to be liable to duty, a small amount, which was paid. Nymwegen was our next station. Here again fruit was added to our cargo. At both places we had time for a slight sketch, having made altogether large and small drawings and sketches upwards of sixty. It is now four o'clock, and we have just arrived at Rotter- |