An Improved and Enlarged Edition of Biddle's Young Carpenter's Assistant; Being a Complete System of Architecture for Carpenters, Joiners, and Workmen in General, Adapted to the Style of Building in the United States Revised and Corrected, with Several...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...may be made of cast metal, such as brass or iron; and inserted in the aperture, if the mantles are made of marble; if of wood, the whole, including the enrichment case, should be formed out of the same material. PLATE 32. Elevations and profiles, full size, of two roseates for the blocks of pilaster and architraves. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...may be made of cast metal, such as brass or iron; and inserted in the aperture, if the mantles are made of marble; if of wood, the whole, including the enrichment case, should be formed out of the same material. PLATE 32. Elevations and profiles, full size, of two roseates for the blocks of pilaster and architraves. Fig. 3. Profile of fig. 1. Fig. 4. Profile of fig. 2..; PLATE 33, & 34, Are four examples of Mantles. In ornamenting a Mantle, the young Carpenter would do well to endeavor at an imitation of something natural, and not to cover his work with unmeaning holes and cuttings of a gouge. Mantles and all other Architectural objects should always have a due proportion of plain surfaces, as a contrast of the ornamented parts. With strict propriety, the faces of Architraves should never be fluted or carved. It very rarely occurs among the beautiful remains of Antiquity, whose Artists seem to have understood true taste much better than those of the present day, or their works would not have excited the admiration of so many ages. The use of composition ornaments, on Mantles, if judiciously chosen and placed, may have a very good effect; but care should be taken, not to overload the work with them; and that there be a proper connexion between the ornaments on different parts. THE YOUNG CARPENTER'S ASSISTANT 30 PLATE 35. Of Intercolumniation. This Plate represents two Porticos; one Doric, and the other Corinthian. It is necessary, in all Orders where there are modillions, that the column should be exactly under a modillion. The Doric Order does not admit of the columns being coupled, as they are in the Corinthian; the space from centre to centre of the modillions or triglyphs being but 75 minutes, when two columns, with the bases touching, would be 80 mi...
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