[M.183L]                                                              [M.183]	Ducal palace. S of C.	183
                                                                      
                                                                      		(25th)      (26th)
                                                                      		The Seventh  H and eighth K pp 13 14 Palace book
                                                                      		(27th)
                                                                      	The Ninth.  This is the first one which I have drawn but on examining
                                                                      		it closely, I find I have much overestimated it:  The baskets owe
                                                                      		the fine curve they have in my drawing altogether to perspective
                                                                      		 being themselves stiff and uniform:  The fruit is roughly cut, not
                                                                      		tenderly nor lovingly, with the broken line of the upper tracery
                                                                      		capitals, to which period I should ascribe it.  Its order is
                                                                      		1. Xerexis of which however the stalks are not undercut
                                                                      		though well suggested.  2 Piri  3 Chucumenia 4  Persici
                                                                      		5  Cuche of this form [diagram] 6  Moloni the common long
                                                                      		melon which is being eaten by the grotesque on the eighth
                                                                      P164		capital of front - vid p 164 above, and which occurs in
                                                                      		my view of fruit boat - 7  Fici very good, perhaps the
                                                                      		best  8 Huva, aspirated.
                                                                      		28th
                                                                      	The Tenth 1.  Largitas with money in a dish or salver in right
                                                                      		hand & in lap, but no expression while the Largitas on
                                                                      		the 7th of facade is pouring out the coin with his hand,
                                                                      		and full of life.  The dish is introduced merely for the change
                                                                      		and every change made on these capitals is stupid.
                                                                      	 2.  Indeciph:  a man with sword & helmet, rough cut and
                                                                      		utterly vile.
                                                                      	3.  Dischordia discordans:  a very meek, nunlike figure
                                                                      		in a veil, the drapery a little better cast {&} fuller than on the

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