KAMPEN, OVERIJSSEL (DATED 1634)
GORINCHEM (GORCUM), SOUTH HOLLAND (DATED 1566)
Two gables from Leiden (page [109]) are well carried out in brickwork. How effectively window-heads and copings were handled, yet withal in a perfectly workmanlike way, is demonstrated by the larger drawing; the brickwork is flush and obliquely tailed into the horizontal courses of the wall.
Long sweeping curves were much employed in the shaping of later gables. The house opposite the bridge in the Franeker illustration (page [113]) has such a gable, and it is dated 1735. Another, from Amsterdam (page [110]), has similar characteristics. Both are enriched with stone representations of fruit and flowers, vases and festoons, all quite in the spirit of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century work.
The sides of the gables of farmhouses and country cottages, straight and unshaped, are not uncommonly protected by barge-boards. The two timbers, running from base to apex, may have mouldings worked at the edge of them; or the undersides are diversified by repeating curves, with pendants appearing at the lower ends. Both methods are figured in detail in drawings 1, 2, and 4 on page [111]. Fascia-boards, applied to overhanging stories of wooden houses, are similarly decorated; two are exemplified in numbers 6 and 7. The wooden finials, which are planted on the outer faces of the gables at their highest points, are variously shaped and perforated, and the details numbered 1, 2, 3 and 5 give four examples of them.
KAMPEN, OVERIJSSEL