The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts (Band 2): Perspective, Architecture (London, 1808)

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PLATE XXVII.

principles of drawing the orders.

THE Orders are generally measured by the
diameter of their column at the bottom of its shaft,
or by the semi-diameter: this diameter, or semi-;
diameter, is usually divided into sixty minutes ; and
by these measures the whole proportions of the
columns are adjusted.

The Tltscan column is in height 7 diamete

The Doric ----- 8

The Ionic - - - - 9

The Corinthian - - - 10

The Composite 10

The perpendicular proportions of the columns
being fixed, the other parts of the orders are ad-
justed to them.

The entablatures of the Tuscan, and Doric,
are in height one-fourth of the column: of the
Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders, one-fifth.
Which by the diameter of their -columns is in this
proportion.

I TheTuscAN entablature is in height diameters.
. The Doric . - - 2
The Ionic - - - -If
The Corinthian - - 2
The Composite - - - 2
The pedestal is comparatively a modern ad-
dition to the Orders, and is that on which the base
of the column rests: its general height is one-fourth

the