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 30
ing the circumferences at the ends into the number of flutes and fillets,then bending a thin rule from the respective divisions at each end ; it is necessary to becareful that the edge of the rule by which you draw, touch the curved surface of thecolumn only: but this method, however simple, is…
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