[HB2.5L]                                                              [HB2.5]							5
                                                                      
[House No 53]                                                         		on Foscari side of Canal.
		[diagram]                                                           House No 53 At Ponte delle Maravegie
L up to first cornice                                                 ie - just in canal behind 12th  house on left of grand canal.
                                                                      Door to ground  a common sq. with plain  3 sec.
This is an angle shaft only up to the                                 Angle shaft. opposite
first cornice - a very grand plain                                    Cornice  C: the  1st  story  4 at  3 det - thus
			shaft on c h . thus,                                               
			and with and R capital                                             [diagram]			with separate
[diagram]	 plain shaft                                                					C plinths.
			and R capitals                                                     					and at  a  a
                                                                      					small early Byzantine
The Sq  s in this house are carried                                   		square of the usual [diagram] pattern.
on small brackets                                                     
					[diagram]                                                           All the windows Sq all early C3 sec. with
                                                                      very  slender & tapered shafts  Kf. the f being very
The balcony given opposite includes                                   broad: and Kp pils and large early [diagram] finials
the entire moulding.                                                  
					Done                                                             2nd  (Top) Story  Placing of windows the same
                                                                      but the det are narrow: and two Byzantine  [diagram]
                                                                      with double birds and placed one above
                                                                      the square below. the other thus on the other
                                                                      [diagram]			side -the finial very small
                                                                      					- a dogt cornice
                                                                      					as usual.
                                                                      					Now these windows worked
                                                                      					with usual  C section
                                                                      			are remarkable first for their
                                                                      having  B P pils, squares to all ; (compare
                                                                      lateral ones in 4 Evangelists ) no shafts.- but
                                                                      chiefly for their straight lined upper arches.
                                                                      produced by the addition of another joint
                                                                      x, x, between the common lower joint &
                                                                      keystone. I had at first thought this some
                                                                      barbarous refitting. but I now believe it
                                                                      original.			Done.

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