Rome in Its Ancient Grandeur: Displayed in a Series of Engravings Presenting the Architectural Antiquities of the Imperial City (Classic Reprint)

Series of Examples judiciously selected from the most celebrated Buildings of ANCIENT ROME, with every particular required for the instruction of the student, the information of the artist, and the guidance of architectonic skill; including correct admeasurements, details, descriptions, and every requisite for the assistance of the Professor. The Engravings exhibit a series of Temples, Porticos, Triumphal A rches, Baths, A mphitheatres; their Elevations, Sections, and Plans: including a collection of architectural Ornaments of the most delicate design, most elaborate workmanship, and purest classical style. Every Subject is measured according to the English Scale, with the most scrupulous regard to accuracy, and the whole presents such an arrangement of Columns, Pilasters, Capitals, Bases, Friezes, A rchitraves, Cornices, Soffits, Rosettes, Modillions, Mouldings, both plain and decorated, c., as will not be found in any other publication. These details have always been resorted to as models for our Public Edifices, and as furnishing highly esteemed originals for the Decorations of Domestic Architecture :the accuracy of the Measures and Proportions, calculated in this edition by the English Standard, constitutes this Series an invaluable collection of Working Drawings: the measurements were originally according to the French scale, which is to the English as 12 788 to 12, therefore very inconvenient to the British Student: this is now correctly rectified. From the complete, elaborate, and accurate mode in which the Details are laid down, the various relative positions in which they are placed, the precision of their respective proportions, their comparative admeasurements, their breadths, their heights, their projections, their smallest ornaments, from these artistic advantages, the experienced professor, the intelligent student, the skilful operative, the mo
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