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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 15

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gant and interesting work on the Antiquities of Athens ;the other new plates are an outline of the Composite Capital, for the use of learners,and an antique Ionic Door-case, proper to be drawn from or worked. These additions,on ten new plates, with various corrections in the descriptions, render… … Bead. 5 EXPLANATIONS, &c.PLATE I. TO DESCRIBE THE SEVERAL KINDS OF MOULDINGS. To describe an Ovolo, Take the height a b; set the compasses in 6, describe an arc, and with the same dis-tance on the projection at c, describe an arc cutting the former at a, then on a} as a cen-tre, describe an arc…

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