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[No.157] [No digital image: Reproduced in #I#Works, #/I#38. 294 (facing)]

					The dentil round is the same and early one

[diagram] Fig 1  joint A    joint				[diagram]

Section of tracery at the side, where it is	and its great flat [?] is seen from behind
bounded by the dentil. the outer line being		the tracery
the pil abacus head.					Pil head. c d should = c d in fig 1
Now note: The joint A. being the end of	[diagram]
the tracery, while the centre of the trefoil
should come b above b, the trefoil is			The 5th det at side of this tracery
cut off sharp just at the proper place,			are wrought with the same section
as below: as if it had literally been			only the cusps are trefoiled and
cut off and [ied?] by the dentil.			rough chiselled in trefoilation
							They would be highly interesting
							as fifths with an outer roll.
							but I suspect them, as, well as
							their hybrid balconies to be
							restorations or imitations

	[diagram]				[drawing]		   [diagram]

The bases of these shafts have the
neatest little finial leaf [invented?]
on the doges palace tracery pattern		The two lateral capitals are like this.
That I have ever seen				which I have drawn carefully as it seems
as below: their bases. of usual section	paralleled with many of the doges palace
is continued into the plinth below		traceries. and is characteristic of many
 their stone panels which are			throughout Venice.
worked with cavettos like tracery		The central capital here, has the same leaves
and are all I think of same time		all round: and the same angle, spirals it has a
						bell with
						an early rose
						above this central
						leaf thus			[diagram]

[diagram]   leaf bases
[diagram]  [diagram]

			        the
	base as continued along into ^ plinth
	then stone between all, I think of
	[page cut-away] [?]

			[diagram]        The shields have been painted red &
					yellow in alternate bands: Their [supporters?]
					are of rude early cutting.
					No 157   Tracery at San Sebastiano
						continued
								Done.

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