[45] By Mr. Penrose.

[46] I am sometimes obliged, unfortunately, to read my woodcuts backwards owing to my having forgotten to reverse them on the wood.

[47] Vide [Plate X.] figs. 1 and 4.

[48]

1. Fondaco de’ Turehi, lateral pillars. 2. Terraced House, lateral pillars. 3. Casa Farsetti, central pillars, upper arcade. 4. Casa Loredan, lower arcade. 5. Casa Loredan, lower arcade. 6. Fondaco de’ Turchi, upper arcade. 7. Casa Loredan, upper arcade. 8. St. Mark’s. 9. St. Mark’s. 10. Braided House, upper arcade. 11. Casa Loredan, upper arcade. 12. St. Mark’s. 13. St. Mark’s. 14. Fondaco de’ Turchi, upper arcade. 15. St. Mark’s.

[49] Compare “Seven Lamps,” chap. ii. § 22.

[50] Two of these are represented in the second number of my folio work upon Venice.

[51] The absence of the true grotesque spirit in Byzantine work will be examined in the third chapter of the third volume.

[52] Ezekiel, xxvii. 11.

[53] Perhaps this type is in no place of Scripture more touchingly used than in Lamentations, i. 12, where the word “afflicted” is rendered in the Vulgate “vindemiavit,” “vintaged.”