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VERONA BRIDGE GATEWAY
Ft. in Span of great arch: and its height from point to cross
1. Breadth of entire gateway from jamb to jamb 12. 1¾ bar: (point of ar[n]c[l]h - not of foliation) is 3ft 2: The
12. Breadth of entire side above or below bases plinths of the shafts are exactly the same plan and
the capital, (a-d fig 1.) 5. 1½ size, as the capital abacus: leaving interval of 3ft 8
3. The two courses of bent bricks, each, wide 2 1/5 ne No 7, (now 3) On one side, half of the arch: on
nearly 2¼ the other the moulding between the brick: The lines of
4. Each brick long more or less 10 (the this ornament and its leaves come gleaming out in
bricks are counted) silver from the darkened marble: it is impossible
5. Width of marble inserted moulding including that anything could be lovelier or more perfect. It is
the two fillets 5 1/3 drawn real size: its depth of cutting as in section
6. c-d (fig 1) 1 11 (or shows at about the third of an inch: and the fillet
10 5/6) border about ½ an inch: the flowers rising to same level,
7. a-b (fig 1) 2 4 1/3 the narrowest stalks a little below it, like a second arch
(Then (3) x 2, (5) (6) (7) all separately measured of tracery: the leaves quite flat [flay] and not ribbed. Note
breadth of cement. Not measured, should - (2) ) how this character depends on their straight contours: as
8. Entire height of capital 1 6 opposed to thecurve of less flat mouldings: as that of
9. Top of abacus to top of bell, (b-d fig 2) 5½ the sarcophagus of Mostico in No 1. The measures oppo-
10. a-b (fig 2) in the front of the capital, 1½ site.
but at its side. (note this) 3 The coil of the moulding drawn was the lowest: there are
11. b-c (fig 2) 2½ 26 on each side of the arch: at its top, a(cats?) head
12. Depth of jamb (stonework) occupied by form 2 holds the cord in its mouth, and instead of leaves a bird
of the leaves and a bit is inserted into the roll on its right, and into the third
13. Breadth of each leaf of capital 5 in roll on its left. The plan of the moulding is to have a
14. Interval between each leaf ½ leaf in the large side interstice, and berry in small
one opposite, but, as seen in the drawing a smaller
leaf is sometimes as if for experiment
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]