DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS. XV 



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Woodcuts 20 to 24. Greek Otta, and other vases (mostly Greek), 



of good form and proportion . . 250 to 254 



Figs. 8, 9, of woodcut 24, show how different 

 they may be, though both are of good form and 

 proportion ; and how impossible it is to lay down 

 rules for what must depend on the judgment of 

 the eye. 

 „ 25 to 33. Vases of bad taste, though many very costly 



255 to 258 

 „ 34. Some spoilt by changes in the form and proportion . 258 

 „ 35. A vase appearing as if made up of the form of two 



different ones ..... 259 



„ 36. Vase with handles suited to its size . . . 260 



„ 37. Greek rhyton in the form of an animal's head . 260 



„ 38. Greek askos, taken from a water skin . . 260 



„ 39. The askos badly imitated at the present day . 260 



„ 40. Fig. 1. Mistaken, and (Jig. 2) proper mode of 



placing figures on vases . . . . 26 1 



„ 41. Mistaken position of figures on a cylix . . 261 



„ 42. Mixture of geometrical patterns and flowers in a 



design, a false principle . . . .261 



„ 43. The same form, as in a window divided into two 

 parts by a vertical line, looks higher than when not 

 so divided ...... 262 



„ 44. Faulty mode of arranging ornaments in a vertical 



design ...... 263 



„ 45. The volute capital of very early Egyptian date . 263 

 „ 46. Mixture of scrolls and flowers, a false principle . 264 

 „ 47. Mode of hanging pictures in a room . 265 



„ 48. Egyptian early vases, very like those of Greek time, 



in form and details .... 300 



„ 49. Some patterns, used in Greek and later times, of a 



very early Egyptian age .... 301 



„ 50. Roman notched stone voussoirs copied by the Sa- 

 racens ...... 302 



„ 51. Anglo-Saxon treatment of drapery, fig. 1 b,fig. 2 b, 

 and figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, — an imperfect and ill understood 

 imitation of the antique . . . .311 



„ 52. Segmental arch abutting against a wall, as if it did 



not belong to it . . . . . 333 



„ 53. Arches approaching too near to the summit of the 

 wall it pretends to support, and even breaking 

 through and passing above it 334 



„ 54. Mistakes in spires and obelisks . . . 339 



