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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 933

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dividing the height ofthe whole front into eleven parts, one of which must be given to the entablature, and theremaining ten to the rest of the front. We suspect that the smallness which is assignedby this author to its height has been induced by some error, and that a better rule wouldbe induced… … Fig. 951. Fijj.gaO. 2727. In Jipx. 949, 950, and 951. are given three examples of block cornices (thesecond being by Palladio), whose proportions the figures sufficiently show without heregiving a detail of their parts. The height of either should not be less than one fifteenth ofthe height of the…

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