Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 26
10 PUIXCIPLES OF DESIGN. or hcn'c on':, al:)out one-third of the distance from its base to its apex (just where this distension would oecurj were the column formed of a slightly plastic material), … and yet this distension of the shaft is not such as to give any idea of weakness, for the column appears to rise with the energy of such vigorous life as to he more than able to bear the weight which it has to sustain. Mark also the singularly delicate curve of the capital of the column, which
Decoration and ornament
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