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66 43
CA D’RO TRACERIES FIRST STORY ALPS.
great roll gives a peculiar character to the cusp
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 n[o]
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 out not quite to g of the section and are as the
space in fig 1 without the small in centre; a great
triangular basin. While the interstices 3 all alike, reach
ing 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 Pont del Teatro Malesobran. 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, and fine lions at
angles.
Tuesday, Nov 20th I got chile[l]d 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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