The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... architrave is made with its vertrical faces over the edge of the column , at the neck of the capital , in two thicknesses , in its horizontal dimension , with a space of two digits or 14 inch between , for the admission of air to ...
... architrave is made with its vertrical faces over the edge of the column , at the neck of the capital , in two thicknesses , in its horizontal dimension , with a space of two digits or 14 inch between , for the admission of air to ...
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... architrave , where they will be useful in supporting the middle of the entablature , which otherwise would have too great a bearing . When columns are detached , as in the triumphal arches of Septimius Severus , and Constantine , at ...
... architrave , where they will be useful in supporting the middle of the entablature , which otherwise would have too great a bearing . When columns are detached , as in the triumphal arches of Septimius Severus , and Constantine , at ...
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... architraves . When the solid part of the masonry of a range of arcades are decorated with the or- ders , the ... architrave resting on the capital , in the same perpendicular as the top of the pilaster . When the pilasters are ...
... architraves . When the solid part of the masonry of a range of arcades are decorated with the or- ders , the ... architrave resting on the capital , in the same perpendicular as the top of the pilaster . When the pilasters are ...
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... II . 111 J. Farey Jun delin Lowry sculp with Ionic or Corinthian , or with an Ionic architrave. London . Published by Longman , Hurst , Reas & Orme , 1809 . Published Oct11808 , by Longman . Hurst , Bees ,. ARCHITECTURE .
... II . 111 J. Farey Jun delin Lowry sculp with Ionic or Corinthian , or with an Ionic architrave. London . Published by Longman , Hurst , Reas & Orme , 1809 . Published Oct11808 , by Longman . Hurst , Bees ,. ARCHITECTURE .
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... architrave . When the entablature over the columns is recessed within the surface of the wall or pier at each end , the pilaster projects to- wards the column , its thickness is shewn on the front , and its breadth faces the void or ...
... architrave . When the entablature over the columns is recessed within the surface of the wall or pier at each end , the pilaster projects to- wards the column , its thickness is shewn on the front , and its breadth faces the void or ...
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