PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

ARCHITECTURE

OF THE PRINCIPAL

ANCIENT AND MODERN BUILDINGS

IN

FRANCE AND ITALY.

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PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

ARCHITECTURE

OF THE PRINCIPAL

ANCIENT AND MODERN BUILDINGS

IN

FRANCE AND ITALY:

WITH REMARKS ON THE

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE,

AND

A CONCISE LOCAL DESCRIPTION

OF

THOSE COUNTRIES.

WRITTEN, FROM

Sketches and Memoranda

MADE DURING A VISIT IN THE YEARS
1802 AND 1803.

BY GEORGE TAPPEN.

Omnium bonarum artium scriptores ac

doctores et legendi et pervolutandi.

CICERO.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

By William Ballintine,

-

Duke street, York - buildings, Strand.

SOLD BY JOSIAH TAYLOR, 59, HIGH-HOLBORN,
AND GEORGE KEARSLEY, 46, FLEET-STREET.

1806.

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SIR THOMAS HYDE PAGE, KNT. F.R.S.

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THIS WORK

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS

MUCH OBLIGED,

AND FAITHFUL FRIEND,

GEORGE TAPPEN.