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PLATE. XXIX.
\ TUSCAN ORDER,
THE noblest instance we have of this order
Trajan's Pillar I but that is not a perfect specimen:
neither, in fact, is any perfect specimen ' known,
as a regular order, (notwithstanding some frag-
ments united by Piranesi in his temple of Cord).
This plate we have taken from Palladio; who
assures us he had seen it among the ancient build-
ings extant in his time, though now destroyed.
PLATE XXX.
DORIC ORDER.
THIS Plate exhibits an example of the Doric
order, taken from the Theatre of Marcellus,
at ..Rome: which is usually regarded as the
most correct specimen of this order. It is,
however, contrary to the precepts of "\ itruvius,
(who says, the dentils, as ornaments, are peculiar
to the Ionic order) the cornice of this composi-
tion being decorated wTith dentils. The drops also
beneath the corona, instead of being horizontal,
are somewhat inclined.
PLATE
PLATE. XXIX.
\ TUSCAN ORDER,
THE noblest instance we have of this order
Trajan's Pillar I but that is not a perfect specimen:
neither, in fact, is any perfect specimen ' known,
as a regular order, (notwithstanding some frag-
ments united by Piranesi in his temple of Cord).
This plate we have taken from Palladio; who
assures us he had seen it among the ancient build-
ings extant in his time, though now destroyed.
PLATE XXX.
DORIC ORDER.
THIS Plate exhibits an example of the Doric
order, taken from the Theatre of Marcellus,
at ..Rome: which is usually regarded as the
most correct specimen of this order. It is,
however, contrary to the precepts of "\ itruvius,
(who says, the dentils, as ornaments, are peculiar
to the Ionic order) the cornice of this composi-
tion being decorated wTith dentils. The drops also
beneath the corona, instead of being horizontal,
are somewhat inclined.
PLATE