[GB.48L]                                                              [GB.48]							48
                                                                      
			[drawing]                                                          	Opposite. masonry of the two det 5ths
                                                                      of back of house at Murano. Desc. P. 53 .here.
                                                                        Their windows are peculiarly graceful in
		Det 5th  at back                                                    forms . owing to the regular shape of
		untrefoiled cusp                                                    the cusp. which I never before saw developed
		Pils restored                                                       so markedly. I have hardly given it
	Pils some restored form form.                                        enough here opp. but more accurately on
	  This cusp is perfectly plain.                                      No 114. at a. where it is contracted
                not trefoiled.                                        with the form B. belonging to the smaller
                                                                      side window drawn on that page.
                                                                      In B. the reversed curve is just  felt in
                                                                      the archivolt. in A. not: in B the
                                                                      cusp sides I think nearly equal,
                                                                      though they melt as imperceptibly into
                                                                      the archivolt as the unequal ones at
                                                                      A . Consider the beauty of this latter
                                                                      like all pure Gothic depending on the
                                                                      slightness of the curve.
                                                                      In the finished figure of No 114. the
                                                                      lateral window. with the cusp B. is drawn
                                                                      a little too small in cusp. fig 2. on
                                                                      same sheet. is a closer approximation . perhaps
                                                                      [being ?] a little on the other side
                                                                      Finally on the back of No 114 . we have
                                                                      another most remarkable window . with
                                                                      the pure scymitar cusp again, and even
                                                                      more delicately tapered than the one opposite.

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