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 932
tem that we have generally adi)])ted in this work,that we are too mucli reducing the art to rules. Butthis is a practice of wliich the painter is not ashamedin the proportions of the human figure, and we mustremind our reader and the student that nil rules are morefor the purpose of restraining… … PRACTICE OF ARCIIITECTUllE. Book III, sidcred more in relation to a building than a mere cornice, and requires rustic quoins, ifpossible, at the angles when used. Chambers, speaking of this example, says, that whenit is used to finish a plain building, the whole height is found by dividing the…
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