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Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.

The Fifty-third Figure A.

John James translation

The Orders of Architecture, taken from Palladio and Scamozzi.

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Besides Vignola, Palladio and Scamozzi have also written excellently well of the Orders of Architecture; and each of ’em have deservedly their Followers and Admirers. That you might therefore be enabl’d to make Designs in Perspective, after the Proportions of the most celebrated Masters, I have in this Plate given you the Measures of all the Orders, as deliver’d by them in their Books.

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Fig. liii. b.

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