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                                                                      	and these branch - not from same point, but as opp. A and
                                                                      the ribs are thinned off to mere threads at the ends of
                                                                      the leaves;  and the whole thing is finer in cutting
                                                                      and more vulgar in design and effect;  much depending
                                                                      on the exuberant curbing of the lobes;
                                                                      The inscriptions and quaint costumes now cease ; Common-
                                                                      place boys with well formed, uninteresting faces;  and
                                                                      figures with flowing draperies and unintelligible or
                                                                      uninteresting action - generally ill and awkwardly set
                                                                      among the leafage, like the place of the rich invention
                                                                      of the older work:  The an[x]atom[i]y is also[n] much better
                                                                      in the naked bodies of the children.
                                                                      It is of no use to enumerate the alternations from old to
                                                                      young in these purposeless figures;  except in one or two
                                                                      cases.
                                                                      This first Bon shaft has a bracket, also of late - perhaps
                                                                      even later, period on its abacus and carries an arch with
                                                                      a simpler head moulding - across - which carries the wall
                                                                               between sola del Scruturio ad Mr Lorenso’s room  One other
                                                                       of the series is described at p 27 palace book:  and
                                                                      the best of the whole I have drawn with the Venice on
                                                                      throne   It is curious that these two red capitals;  but
                                                                      especially the Venice one; are far superior in carving
                                                                      to any of the series except the one at the angle:  and of
                                                                      these two, my Venice one is the best;  It has another
                                                                      crowned figure at the back, sketched full size, and in the

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