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146 114
No 94, 95, 6-7-8-9- DUCAL PALACE CENTRE TO SEA
transverse joints are very neat and clean, not the
eighth of an inch wide; but the longitudinal at side
are rough, and occasion the jagging and apparent
inaccuracy: the 92-3-4- were cut with ivory knife
beside dentil: the 91 more difficult to crush into
place, is a little too narrow - ¼ of inch each side per-
haps: it is the shape however of the uppermost piece of
stone within the mortar: and note especially the
want of symmetry in its two sides; in a thing so easily
made symmetrical this is very remarkable, and made one
trace the whole.
No 95. Rough tracing from the balcony of Doge’s Palace
towards Piazzetta - its principle the same as the other
vide p 102, and No 78.
No 96 Beaver of the casque with bird pecking its bosom;
on wall of house no 43. The wall of course later than
the house.
No 97, 98. Describe the central canopy of facade to sea
of Doge’s palace. I am much disappointed by its examinati
xand by its composition which is throughly tion - the only truly fine thing in it is the sweeping
good. breadth of dogtoothed circle figs 1 and 2 no 97 The
rest is La Scala becoming Milan - only saved by its
severity and sweet setting in of colour in small tre-
foiled arches (x) A bad statue of St Michael by
Canova on the east side is scrawled all over with pen-
cilled names (chiefly Italian and German - till from
white it has become grey. Father details of the Gothic
canopy are given in No 99.
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