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No 73. DUCAL PALACE FRONT WINDOWS
The third window: That on the facade next prison: Its
tracery and has been both traced and Dageurreotyped.
From plinth to apex of soffit of dentil 16 " 10 The Fourth. That next Centre. I measured the height of
Space between dentils along plinth at base 13 " 10 this to-day: it is the same evidently as the rest: its
Height of Abacus head aboveplinth either measures opposite.
at the shaft or jamb 8 " 2 Bases½ The jamb base in this window is exactly the same as that
We have thus for height of the arch: 16 " 10 - 8 " 2 - 8"8 already drawn in those of the side; the first and
and for its breadth 13. 10 second; the section of it is given in red on no 73
Giving about this proportion - Begin at A when it joins the flanking dentil.
B. joint where it stands on the strangely raised plinth
B2, same point - C, edge of the plinth of window all along
D E wall of palace below, c-D was felt with my hand. I
1 could not put amy head over far enough to see it.
The three leaves were three vain try’s to get the beauty
of the light lead laid on the angle of thejamb: The first
plan of this leaf is a simple block spiral - perfectly
vertical at the side of its roll, fig 1 opposite, but
under cut below, so that a section across the dotted line
would be as fig 2: The grace of the lines about the bow
of this ship like head, and of its run from the roll
outwards, are quite indescribable - the wet step is to
throw them radiant
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