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Palazzo at S. Apostolic or Grand canal Its general arrangement at p 51
1 door book showing places of lower arches by upper
windows. The whole arch A has however been effaced
and two pilasters have been put to the next arch on the
c C circa 5 " 0 right; of the plinth section, but rough cut and altogether
a2b2 -------- 4 " 9 modern in look. There are therefore only four shafts in
e f between shafts 5 " 5 upper story, and three below of the two right hand arches
f2g --- --- --- 8 " 2 no trace is lef[r]t.
abacus side h i 2 " 1¾ I was glad to find the perfect leaf plinth in its right
place all along under the modern wooden balcony Fig 2
Verical height of entire capital to underneath its great p 51, is its pure elevation in front. fig 3 its section
lower roll, about 1 " 9 and of its abacus about with leaf: fig 4 leaf seen to the side, showing its
5 in x (The shafts, round circa 4 " 4) curious shoe shape; it is flat convex at the back fig 5(1[)]
x This abacus is that of the shaft A whose capital is section straight across it, showing its curious three
carefully given at fig 1 No 112, and the junction above ridge ribs on chamfered ridge, and fig 6 the head of the
supposing the capitals towards turned straight of the intermediate ornament with four sections at their respec-
narrow and broad arch: the great white blank block between tive levels.
is a rest[c]oration doubtless of the arches have been stilted X The entire architrave section of the lower arches is given
down[.] Fig 2 No 112 and section below is the capital B; at p 52 1 its vertical breadth from a to b being about
the loveliest of its kind I have found. The architr[s]ave 1 " 3; the other measures opposite.
ornament of the great arch is very crude but remarkable x Better given here than at fig 3 No 122 There is a curious
for the distinctness of its thistle top shaped flower: subordinate of the ornament in the three arches. The
great one has a leaf foreign drawn on No 112. That between
A and i opposite has birds and beats; and the outer one
has the rose and ornaments all round
Observ also - the leaf frieze in front, on the round door
nea[x]eer Rialto and beats pm soffit asit subordinate
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