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                                                                      				TOMBS
This is the tomb on western side of North transept door.              
St J and Paul No 85 here at p 17  Its effect is rudely                Tomb No 85.  Agnese:  Begin at base:  Lions vilely cut afford no
sketched on No 23.  Selvatico p 147 1.                                Sketch No 23	criterion:  look later, but imitative.  Base of shaft,
                                                                      		precisely the same as those of twisted shafts of Doge’s
Fig F. p 17 Goth, book was sketched from below, from its              		palace;  in traceried windows:  with same leaf, and
lateral niches:  these arch leaving so wide an interval               		section.  The spiral shaft is only [drawing] but this is
to the cusp above, and none below, being very curious                 		because the whole thing is cheap and ill cut.  It is
Afterwards the figure on p 18 1 was drawn up at it                    		banded p [gap] Gothic book.  A base B. band;  the cable of
with great care.  It is by much the best work of the                  		B. is red marble with a leaf on centre in front.
monument and its enemite head  and the worked                         		{Great} capital {a in sketch No 23}.  Florid in two rows,
cornice below, really fine.   But on the                              		which are in fact nothing but the florid plinth with
whole it is as ill worked as anything I                               		second row of lower lobes put into a square form, as opp:
have seen:  and must be  much later than                              		almost a bracket.  The leaves of the capital have curled
Ducal palace of which however most carefully                          		lobe with fruit and are merely incised below:  but in the
compare sections on No 67.                                            		bracket above b No 23 they are more elaborate;  having a 
                                                                      		stalk of a four leaved rose set in the incision and filling
                                                                      		it up and carrying fruit at top.  But all is of various
                                                                      		workmanship.  There is one really fine bit of cornice under
                                                                      		the niche in red marble, c {No 23}. in which the leaves, set
                                                                      		with back to ogee, show an incision below and a ridge
                                                                      		where they curl - holding in their sharp lobes a head
                                                                      		like Doge cap; nicely cut, a 4 lobed rose interposed below
                                                                      		has on a flame like centre [drawing] -      very  unusual.  D;
                                                                      		Goth. book is section of the wild crockets {in face -
                                                                      		below} they curl over showing definite rib on upper surface.

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