Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)
Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 412
wprickly acanthus; that of the Roman, the soft acantlius. For capitals theRoman acanthus is commonly composed of conventional clusters of oliveleaves. The Greek scroll is seldom elaborated, but the Roman is seldomwithout acanthus foliations. Fig. 3, represents a Roman acanthus scroll. The free… … PLATE I.XI. 274 Fig. 2. ^