[No.155] [RL 1636 box]

[vertical orientation]

				Done all but fig 1.
			Palace Near Post Office

[diagram]

	Cusp remarkably narrow
	and cavetto slightly recessed

tracery to
back of
capital
behind.

	[diagram]

		Base				[diagram] Fig 2
		of central
		shaft				leaf
		octagonal
	a b	11 ½  in			each
	b c	  8 in				 ^ Panel occupied
	side of octagon  6 ½			by  a
	round shaft	   3  “  2		pretty
			at base			and well cu [edge of page cut away]
							leaf
	The capital leaves
	ribbed beautifully
	& finely flowing
	Of best Bon time
	Quite unique are
	flower plinths
	The other bases are of usual kind
	but leaves quite plain have their toes higher turned
	than usual
	height of shaft  6 - 10
	Round it at top about. 2  “  6
	of band above some 4 to 5 inches varying
		4 foil cusps sharp. & trefoiled as below
		Lions heads tolerably good but always [?].


	[diagram]	cusp profile
			Cusp profile						          l
			What a curious contrast			No 155 p 145   M.
			to the Frari system
			when the fillet is twice
			as broad on the abacus
			as it is about trefoil

[Version 0.05: May 2008]