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                                                                      No 187			Lyons Cathedral
                                                                      
                                                                      		The rose stem springs from the left hand bottom corner;
                                                                      		where there are two most exquisite small figures
                                                                      		which I had not time to draw all buried in young
                                                                      		shoots of rose;  The stem waves up - throwing off buds,
                                                                      		leaves and flowers - to the angle:  then switches round
                                                                      		like a crosier, twining as it curls, and rounding the
                                                                      		edge of the circle with a continual succession of buds
                                                                      		and leaves:  on which the figure stands, terminating at last
                                                                      		in the light blossom   The setting of the leaf on the
                                                                      		angle in the light to take off its harshness is quite
                                                                      		heavenly.
                                                                      Romanesque.  Close to the Cathedral is a Romanesque building with
                                                                      		an arched door, figs 1 and 2 No 187  It is seven or
                                                                      		eight feet wide;  the band of squares alone projecting,
                                                                      		the rest only marked by the masonry of the arch; and
                                                                      		by the diamonds of red tiles let in; of which counting
                                                                      		those so marked as 1 and 2;  that opposite to 1 will be
                                                                      		the 27th.  In the band A colour section is at fig 2
                                                                      		there are 52 squares, large at fig 3 and a half square
                                                                      		let in in one place to fill up.  The outer line at a
                                                                      		should be a semicircle and the breadth a b 2 or 2½ feet.

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