An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1862)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · Oxford ; London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 34
hcal; whichexists almost exclusively, ifnot quite so, in the GreekDoric order. It was neveremployed, strange to say, bythe Romans. It disappears,even in the Greek buildingsthemselves, after the classic period of Athenian art. It maybe defined in its elementary form as a cyma surmounted bya… … In the Roman works, the mouldings are generally worked ofequal projection to the height, and not bolder than the aboveregular forms; but the Grecian mouldings are often bolder,and worked with a small return, technically called a quirk, andthese are of various proportions. Tlie upper and lower…
