The origins of the Doric order. Smooth tree trunks used as uprights on a base, a trencher capital, solid beam as an architrave, crossbeams inserted to frieze beam as trygliphs, cornice of thick boards plastered with clay. Copperplate engraving from Francis Fitzgerald’s The Artist’s Repository and Drawing Magazine, Charles Taylor, London, 1785.

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