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breast leaves carrying the figures, wave alternately to the
right and left.
The Point contact of the leaves, and their concave to convex
flow are most graceful: Their leaf bands sharp and lovely,
Their cutting simple - masculine; and effective. Every way
right: not likely to be broken off as the more elaborate
leafage and beautifully Proutian in effect of line.
Their ribs are perhaps the most succulent of all. They are on the whole, the best of the palace except the
lovely sea angle.
The 7th, 9th, 10th 12th 21st are all on this plan, hardly
As this constitutes an essential difference, I had better take the next varying.
the 33rd, as a subject of comparison. The 29th is a copy of it by the Bon school and most
instructive in its inferiority. The main plan being kept
the ribs are fined down, and therefore do not tell in effect
upon the eye; they look half washed out; the lobes are
confused in their lie, and very poor: and the angle leaves
have a recess instead of a rib at the bottom: x Then the
Bon leaves have a less certain outline; are more softly
modulated and are a little undercut so as to have only
their edges visible: now in the early ones, the edge is
even cut a little up; so as to be seen from below and
like the light strongly showing the outline. The ribs are
clumsily thick - near, but they are well seen where they
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