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 27
TO DRAW THE FLUTES OF COLUMNS.Plate 5. … 9 PLATE V. TO DRAW THE FLUTES OF COLUMNS. To draw the Flutes of the Doric Column. On A B, Fig. 1, the diameter of the column, describe a semicircle, and divide thesemicircle into ten equal parts ; (as the Doric column usually contains twenty flutes,which are in general made shallow, and without…
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