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Architectural Details, Basel

1 pp

Vertical sheet with numerous sketches of architectural elements. Clockwise from bottom left: a dormer with ogee-shaped roof, gutter, and small gargoyle spout at the corner. This same spout is drawn to the left. Above this is a horizontal fountain spout in the shape of a man blowing into a pipe. In the top half of the sheet are three sketches: below left is a window made of five round-arched lancet

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Architectural Details, Buhl

1 pp

Vertical sheet with six sketches of architectural details. At the top are two different styles of chimneys with the artist's notes about colors and material. Below this at left is the detail of the underside of an eave with the artist's notes again about material and and position of the elements, specifically "to let / floor beams protrude / as far as possible / under overhang and / to fill up bet

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Architectural Details, Buhlerthal [sic]

1 pp

Vertical sheet containing three sketches of buildings. At top left is the upper section of a half-timbered structure. At top right is a timber building with a tall tiled roof with a small dormer at the corner. At center is a half-timber building with smaller shed at the front, and a water source flows from under the building's right corner.

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Architectural Details, Bâle

1 pp

Vertical sheet with five sketches of architectural details. Depicted in the upper half of the sheet are two belfries, each with a gilt ball finial, as noted by the artist. Below this at left is a chimney top with two rows of openings topped by a small pitched, tile roof. At bottom left is a doorway framed by quoins. At right is balcony with balustrade viewed from below.

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Architectural Details, Reims

1 pp

Vertical sheet illustrating two sketches of architectural elements. In the center is the clock tower of the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) of the town of Reims, seen from the south. The octagonal tower rises from the roofline with multiple graduated arcaded cupolas and is topped by a finial with weathervane. At bottom right is an unusually intricate dormer. The dormer projects out from the roof ending

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Architectural Elements, France

1 pp

Vertical sheet illustrating five sketches of buildings or architectural features. The top half of the sheet consists of two cupolas, each has a composition of columns supporting a small domical roof. The roof of the cupola at left is like curved mansard with a flat panel at the top and a tall, narrrow finial above. The one at right has an ogee-curved roof with finial and small weathervane. Below t

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Architectural Elements, Poissy

1 pp

Vertical sheet illustrating architectural features from the town of Poissy. At left is a Gothic tower over the crossing of the church of Collegiale Notre-Dame. It is in an early Gothic style, heavy with masonry. The tower rises behind the semicircular apse at the lower level, with an octagonal cupola above. The cupola has double round-arched openings at the carndinal points, and single arches at t

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Architectural Ruin on Cliffs over Ocean

1 pp

7.7 x 10.5 cm (3 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.), irregular

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Architectural Sketches, Soissons and Laon

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Vertical sheet with two sketches of architectural elements. At left is a short tower rising from a roofline. The tower has flattened double arches which are louvered, an an ogee cupola faceted steeple with finial and weathervane above. At right is the corner of a building ending in a gabled roof that has only been partially rendered. At the corner of the roof is a gutter and turret with a small wi

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