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 /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)
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 · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 31
n compositions in joiners, plasterers, and masonswork, are very numerous, and too well known to need de-scribingr. There are several terms applied to large buildings, whichit is proper also to explain. A series of columns of considerable length is called a colonnade. A series of columns at the end… … TUSCAN ORDER. 13 TUSCAN ORDER. Though tliis is not, perhaps, the most ancient of the orders p,yet, from its plainness and simplicity, it is usually first noticed.Its origin is evidently Italian, for the Grecian work, howeverplain, has still some of the distinctive marks of massive Doric,whilst the…
