Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 23
ssure from above, or weight, the shaft of the column is distended, * A capital, and portion of the shaft, of one of these columns are to be seen in the BritishMuseum Sculpture-room, and a cast of the same at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. This Doriccolumn is employed in the Greek Court of the… … Fig. 7. and yet tins distension of the shift is no! such as to give any idea of weakness, forthe column appears to rise with the energy of such vigorous life as to be more thanable to bear the weight which it lias to sustain. Mark also the singularly delicate curve of the capital of the column,…
Decoration and ornament
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