An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 918
remain the more free. 263S. In fij. 919. is a Doric nbove a Tuscan arcade, from the example given byChambers, whereon, before giving the dimensions of the different parts, we shall merelyobsfrve of it that tiie voids or arcades themselves are in round numbers to the solids as 295to 205, being… … Fig. 919. proportions would have been somewliat more pleasing. It istrue that a trifling irregularity would liave been introducedinto the triglyphs of the upper order, or rather the metopaebetween them; but that might have been easily provided againstby a very trifling alteration in the height of…
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