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[M.43L] [M.43] Ca d'Oro. Traceries. First story: Alps. 43
[diagrams]
great roll gives a peculiar character to the cusp [diagram]: It is always
filled by as much of the other orders of the tracery as it
will admit, and thus, the entire tracery being scrawled opposite
the interstice 1, which is the largest, reaches nearly as deep
as h of section at A on last page: it is seen with its deep cavetto and
recess beyond in fig 1 No 15. The spaces 2: all of course
alike, reach not quite to g of the section and are as the
space in fig 1 without the small [diagram] in centre: a great triangular
basin. While the interstices 3 all alike, reaching only a little
beyond f of the section, are treated as at 3 opposite
to save the ugliness of the deep cutting in small space.
Venetian houses, Mem 1. At Ponte del Teatro Malibran: a beautiful balcony
with the trefoiled arch and cherubs heads filling ths spaces
, a fine case of transition: The slab at the base dentiled instead
of cabled, & fine lions at angles.
Tuesday, Nov 20th I got chilled to-day as I was drawing
in the arcade of Doge’s palace: and ran away to the Rialto
to warm myself - meeting Effie I took her with me to the
quay of Murano: It was a grey day - the sky lay in calm
horizontal bars far to the northern horizon: thus it suddenly
broke to an open - long gulph of amber green: and against
this - clear in rainy air - rose the chains of the Tyrolean Alps.
- one gloomy, serrated rank of purple grey, so clear that every
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]