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PLATE XVIII.
SUGGESTED PARTS OF COLUMNS.
No. I.—The storv of the Acanthus basket: which
has been already given : shewing how the elegant
capital of the Corinthian order might originate.
No. II.—An enlarged view of that kind of united
(or reeded) column which we have already seen :
it is surmounted by two rows of water-lily flowers,
whose simple and elegant cups greatly enrich it,
without the appearance of much labor: the head
of Isis above it, is singularly introduced ; but per-
haps not more so, than the author of this would have
thought of some of the cherubim heads which
adorn our churches, &c. It is the capital ot the
columns of the interior court of the temple of Isis
on the isle of PhiLr.
This No. also shews the nature, and effect, of an
Egyptian entablature : its differences from the more
refined productions of Greece are easiJv remarkable,
No. III.—Is another design considerably like the
former; but differing, in the shaft of the column
being smooth, and the divisions (or reedings) re-
stricted to ornament the top of the column : where-
by they become part of the capital. The leaves of
this capital seem to be fluted ; and are by no means
so simple as the former. It is a capital of a column
of the temple of Isis in the isle of Piiihc.
The plans of the columns shew bv their lines the
projections of the leaves of the capitals: the sha-
dowed part being the shaft.
PLATE
L£CT. Il.j
PLATE XVIII.
SUGGESTED PARTS OF COLUMNS.
No. I.—The storv of the Acanthus basket: which
has been already given : shewing how the elegant
capital of the Corinthian order might originate.
No. II.—An enlarged view of that kind of united
(or reeded) column which we have already seen :
it is surmounted by two rows of water-lily flowers,
whose simple and elegant cups greatly enrich it,
without the appearance of much labor: the head
of Isis above it, is singularly introduced ; but per-
haps not more so, than the author of this would have
thought of some of the cherubim heads which
adorn our churches, &c. It is the capital ot the
columns of the interior court of the temple of Isis
on the isle of PhiLr.
This No. also shews the nature, and effect, of an
Egyptian entablature : its differences from the more
refined productions of Greece are easiJv remarkable,
No. III.—Is another design considerably like the
former; but differing, in the shaft of the column
being smooth, and the divisions (or reedings) re-
stricted to ornament the top of the column : where-
by they become part of the capital. The leaves of
this capital seem to be fluted ; and are by no means
so simple as the former. It is a capital of a column
of the temple of Isis in the isle of Piiihc.
The plans of the columns shew bv their lines the
projections of the leaves of the capitals: the sha-
dowed part being the shaft.
PLATE