. Thackerayana;. Before he dines, Mr. Titmarsh returns to his lodgings (possiblythe very ones he occupied during the tragedy of Attwoods violentend, described in the Gamblers Death), to wash-in a fewcroquis in Indian ink ; and there, we may assume, he traces on a A STUDENT IN ROME. 463 loose scrap of paper the whimsical outline of An Eastern An Eastern Traveller Anon Mr. Titmarsh plunges deeper into the art career; hisaspirations lead him to Rome; there, amidst galleries, artists,authors, models, canvases, and easels, he pursues his lively thoughsomewhat desultory course. Who coul
. Thackerayana;. Before he dines, Mr. Titmarsh returns to his lodgings (possiblythe very ones he occupied during the tragedy of Attwoods violentend, described in the Gamblers Death), to wash-in a fewcroquis in Indian ink ; and there, we may assume, he traces on a A STUDENT IN ROME. 463 loose scrap of paper the whimsical outline of An Eastern An Eastern Traveller Anon Mr. Titmarsh plunges deeper into the art career; hisaspirations lead him to Rome; there, amidst galleries, artists,authors, models, canvases, and easels, he pursues his lively thoughsomewhat desultory course. Who could be more at home in thehead-quarters of the fine arts ? who more popular than this kind-hearted, keen-witted young satirist ? a universal favourite, treasur-ing, perhaps unconsciously, every phase of the mixed life he metand led there. Again, as in Paris, a pure Bohemian through in-clination, and yet fond of fine sights and society, with the entrteat his disposal to every circle, refined or vagabond, of the com-munism of a republic of art and letters. Let us take Michael Angelo Titmarshs own evidence respectinghis residence in Rome from his letter on Picture Gossip,7 He has 464 THA CKERA YANA. come back to England, where he is still among the palettes, thestudios, and the picture-galleries, and he is writing to a late fellow-student in the imper
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