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p.138

Purpose

p.138

Notes

Of royal palace (pen) Only 21 win. / the Center door / is decorated with / Coupled Colns of the / Doric order, & / those on each side / with single Col. / supporting Balconies and underlines: 'twenty-two' windows, 'three great doors of entrance'. Of the Fiorentini theatre (pen, pencil) Since pulled down. And of the San Carlo theatre, Soane underlines (pen, pencil) 'twenty-two' and 'twenty-four' of the number of boxes and corrects to 26 and 30. Underlining boxes 'hung with silk' he writes Not literally so

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Drawing

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