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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 56

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d metopes, are generally square, and sometimes enriched with oxheads, as in Plate XV. and sometimes with pateras, according to fancy; when the co-lumn is fluted, it has twenty in number, and these without fillets, as in Plate XV. Forthe manner of drawing the flutes of the Doric column, see Plate V.… … THE DORIC ORDER WITH DENTILS.Plate 15.

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