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The student's instructor in drawing and working : the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, for diminishing and glueing of columns and capitals, for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height, for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical, with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, etc. and some designs for door-cases (1837)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · New York : Office of the Railroad Journal · leaf 101

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Plate 29. … P 35 PLATE XXIX. TO DRAW AN ANGULAR VOLUTE. Divide the perpendicular height A B, as in Fig. 1. into twenty-three equal parts ;take the centre G, ten divisions from the bottom, or thirteen from the top, through thecentre G draw H I perpendicular to A B ; bisect the angle B, G, I by the diagonalline…

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