[PB.Front free endpaper verso] [PB.1] 1 [upside down] Doges palace. splendid palace [?] [alley ?] [buts ?] [Door?] [at ?] [?] & [?] Traceried window of facade: next bridge of Sighs where I was today canal - the 3rd of my catalogue. Jambs - section - &c . all like the next only A 4th in brick plinth not divided under the shaft. though at Ponte Erizzo varied bases all eight - Leaf capital to jambs: bold - well cut. no heads - but of [diagram] Parrocchia St Martin the ruder and coarser or second period - & not of the delicate period = (Shafts spiral ___________A) Palace with early balcony as the others - with truncated blocks flat and at arsenal bases all like the others with the firm all 4ths ribbed leaf I have described so painfully, - but the central shaft heads have been thoroughly ill cut. all notched & jagged and I cannot make out their date: and thin leaves are less ably thrown. more upright - : in addition to this iron bar which crosses the window - inserted into these shaft heads - has split off their outer halves which have been restored most vilely - and yet though the restoration is white and looks quite new - it is hardly [worn?] [out?] than the work below - so that I thought it might be the original but - cleaned -only the section is shallower above [diagram] in the old [diagram] in the new.
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