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[HB2.47L]                                                             [HB2.47]							47
                                                                      
[Fr San?] Gregorio a les Cicogna                                      [diagram] a   c				[diagram]	Capital
                                                                      	4 foil						section
		Cicogna  house at Calle Briati                                      	at top	this a mere line			The foliage
		Fondamenta de Socccorso                                             								Late [?] ill cut
		This cut leaved capital of Commissary                               
		of Police occurs alternating with                                   								Capital
                                                                      								Section
   The cut leaved capital which I have                                								Late & vulgar
drawn large from Comm of Police, occurs                               
with its upper spirals at angle still                                 [diagram] b	Central trefoil
more developed and still more like                                    
the form of L. with divided leaf -                                    		All the cusps slightly truncated about
-alternating with Bracket Byzantine                                   		¼  of an inch   Casa Bernardo
in the new looking house between                                      
Commissary’s and Mr Brown's.                                          Finial pendant twisted . same as
    named in the paper of houses on that                              Giustiniani
      side of canal.                                                  		foscari though not so much nor
                                                                      		so gracefully
                                                                      
                                                                      Palazzo Bernardo: Rich traceried windows
                                                                      I never yet have seen the cusp separated
                                                                      from the lower cavetto by so mere a line: a.
                                                                      not the eighth of an inch deep.
                                                                      the cusps are all slightly truncated - about 1/4 or
                                                                      1/3 of an inch over the point
                                                                         b. shows the arrangement of the central
                                                                         trefoil -. c. of the upper 4 foil the moulding
                                                                      the same throughout.
                                                                      The pendant finial is of leaves twisted
                                                                      much like that of the Giustiniani -though
                                                                           not so much nor so gracefully -  Done.

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