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Updated: July 10, 2025
We have now to note what farther decorative features or peculiarities belong to the capital itself, or result from the theoretical gathering of the one into the other. XXII., p. 110. XXII., applied simply in a and b, but with farther modifications, necessitated by their truncations or spurs, in c, d, and e.
But I shall be told that in the first revival of letters the study of the ancient languages might indeed be very proper; but since that time we have had so many excellent truncations of every thing they contain, that to waste the time, and exhaust the activity of our youth in the learning of Latin and Greek, is to very little purpose indeed. Translation! what a strange word!
The bell of the one, it will be seen, is the exact reverse of that of the other: the angle truncations are, in both, curved horizontally as well as uprightly; but their curve is convex in the one, and in the other concave.
These four leaves, on the truncations of the capital, correspond to the four leaves which we saw, in like manner, extend themselves over the spurs of the base, and, as they increase in delicacy of execution, form one of the most lovely groups of capitals which the Gothic workmen ever invented; represented by two perfect types in the capitals of the Piazzetta columns of Venice.
What a "craze" for tulip borders and screens, tulip wallpapers and tulip panel-carvings, I would set going in America! The colors, old gold, orange, vermilion, and green, the forms, gentle curves and classical truncations, and all new and American, with a woodsy freshness and fragrance in them.
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