The whole page is taken up with the following notes:
The incoherence of the adoption may be classed as | to transposition alone for the egg and tong or anther | moulding is here the smallest whereas, in the Ionian | it has large parts, indeed it is rather difficult to [?rue] | [?rule] the introduction of it here so small for then | all proportions near it which reduced the the [sic] egg to | a wrens to acccomodate the Eminent leaf below and | the Anther becomes a Dart, but the general form or | lack of line as seen from the ground must give that | sentiment of growing ambition the characters of | the Trajan triumph. that the mind receives no check | in contemplation the rush of war and floats with | the spiral line to the capitial if the sculptor had been | as carefull as the architect to [...] the character he | would surely have atended to the proportions of the
The source of these passages on proportion in relation to architecture (including the Trajan and Antonine Columns in Rome) remains unidentified.
1 Trajan’s Column also features in Turner’s notes on folios 34 recto, 35 recto, 35 verso, 36 verso, 37 verso and 61 verso (
D07409,
D07411,
D07412,
D07414,
D07416,
D07459); see also the entry for folio 33 verso (
D07408). The present notes run continuously from folio 35 recto to folio 37 verso (
D07411–D07416).
