American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 453
uld have been counterbalanced,for the sake of repose, by a morejudicious use of interrupt-ing horizontal belts, suchindeed as seem to giverepose and massiveness tothe great original. If thedesign had been drawnso as to expose two ofits sides at once, the ab-sence of the technicaldevices which we… … point of view, what was to be saidof an envelope so enormous andso costly as this, which dependedfor its character entirely uponthe disposition of forty-four blankwindows, each divided by thesame attenuated shaft into twoparts, and each having its headfilled with the same form of round-arched…
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