[HB1.14L]                                                             [HB1.14]							14
[diagram] A  [diagram] A [diagram]  B                                 
                                                                      		12th House
    Leaves on this cornice between                                    	At the Ramo dell Ambasciatore
windows, not on B.                                                    	Very like 11th in general plan.
   This house is the beautiful brown one in                           
daguerreotype with small house beyond: It                             1	One at side, of type a A f but and of section
has two statues between its top story windows                         	a. with roll cabled. and with leaves at
which are bad renaissance. but curiously                              2	the dotted points. In the centre of [diagram] are
enough has on their brackets the little bracket                       	angle in Sq holds a shield with three lions
moulding characteristic of this house.                                	on its bar oblique. and charged with [diagram]
                                                                      	while two kneeling supporters seen carrying
The finial is rich in feeling but bluntly cut, as                     3	an acorn each.
If either early or late. There is a leaf at apex of coll                    Angle cabled. nearly as last house with same
                                                                      	base shaft: But its cornices very singular.
[diagram] C	[diagram] D                                               	The lowest  A A. opposite.
	      [great?]                                                       	The A uppermost only the fillet and cable
The cusps of the 4 foils in this house                                4	increased in size B.
are foliated thus [diagram] - with incised cusps these also           	It has Water floor with centre entresol & two
				- unusual.                                                        	stories above. Central door to water of type
				this is not so. I think                                           	B. for sections vid No. 46
				in the arch cusps. but                                            	-Two small windows on each side. of figure
				the usual plain trefoliation.                                     	C opposite. executed with the section of
                                                                      5	the door arch all round . so as to
                                                                      	have the brackets upside down at bottom
                                                                      	and leaves at dotted points
                                                                      	First story   4 central windows. Exactly
                                                                      	as in last house. only the roses are larger and
                                                                      	ill cut. and lap over the triangle edges
                                                                      	and the lions heads are barbarous & look
                                                                      6	[imitation?] . I see the doubtful section of shaft head
                                                                      	on last page is indeed as D. opposite. [query?]
                                                                      	Early occurrence of flower band
                                                                      	Pilasters  Kp. Two windows on each
                                                                      	side sixth order: Sq: Pilasters Kp.- arch
                                                                      	moulding C: but unusually bold in the roll
                                                                      	in the great moulding: and I suspect that  [continues on p. 15]

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