pieces here and there; look, for instance, at
the varied size and design of the crockets; and beauty of the
cornices.

(33.) _Bracket under Sarcophagus of Giovanni della Scala._ (A.)

Characteristic of the finest later treatment of flowing foliage.

251. (34.) _Part of the front of the Ducal Palace, Venice._ (R.)

Sketched, in 1852, by measurement, with extreme care; and showing
the sharp window traceries, which are rarely seen in Photographs.

(35.) _Angle of the Ducal Palace, looking Seaward from the Piazzetta._
(R.)

Sketched last year, (restorations being threatened) merely to show
the way in which the light is let through the edges of the angle by
penetration of the upper capital, and of the foliage in the
sculpture below; so that the mass may not come unbroken against the
sky.

(36.) _Photograph of the Angle Capital of Upper Arcade seen in No. 34._

Showing the pierced portions, and their treatment.

(37-38.) _Capitals of the Upper Arcade._

Showing the grandest treatment of architectural foliage attained by
the 14th century masters; massive for all purposes of support;
exquisitely soft and refined in contour, and faultlessly composed.

SECTION III. TIME OF "THE MASTERS."

252. (39.) _Study of the top of the Pilaster next the Castelbarco Tomb._
(R.)

The wild fig leaves are unfinished; for my assistant having
unfortunately shown his solicitude for their preservation too
energetically to some street boys who were throwing stones at them,
they got a ladder, and rooted them up the same night. The purple
and fine-grained white marbles of the pilaster are entirely
uninjured in surface by three hundred years' exposure. The coarse
white marble above has moldered, and is gray with lichens.

(40.) _Study of the base of the same Pilaster, and connected Facade._
(R.)

Showing the effect of differently colored marbles arranged in
carefully inequal masses.

253. (41.) _Interior Court of the Ducal Palace of Venice, with Giant's
Stair._ (R.)

Sketched in 1841, and perhaps giving some characters which more
finished drawing would lose.

(42.) _The Piazza d' Erbe, Verona._ (R.)

Sketched in 1841, showing general effect and pretty grouping of the
later Veronese buildings.

(43.) _Piazza de' Signori, Verona._

Sketched last year. Note the bill ad