The origins of the Doric order. Tree trunks used as uprights, a solid beam as an architrave, crossbeams as trygliphs and cornice of thick boards. Copperplate engraving from Francis Fitzgerald’s The Artist’s Repository and Drawing Magazine, Charles Taylor, London, 1785.

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