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

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