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consistent with other historic cut and rubbed and gauged work researched and
surveyed by the author in Flanders and the Netherlands.
The author concluded that the reason the bricks had been worked so small
on the masterpieces were so apprentices could prove mastery of the skill of
geometry, fine cutting and setting skills on a scaled model, facilitating intricate
detail but without using precious space within the guildrooms. Drawings for
nine guild masterpieces are depicted, six of which are for the bricklayers and
their relevant geometry and mathematics discussed, within 'Architectura of
Bouw-Konst' (Architecture of Building Construction),
d
.1777 by Adrianus Erzy.
He was an Amsterdam teacher of mathematics and architecture, who particu-
larly emphasises the design, setting out and obtaining the templets; which in
turn were made by carpenters. Four of the designs show three styles of square
framed panels, plates LXII, LXIII and LXX, and the more difficult elliptical
bullseye with mop-staff moulded oblique reveals, plate LXVI, are repeated
several times over in De Waag (Fig. 45). The latter due to its complexity and
being visible on both the outside and inside of the building, Erzy (1777, 10) is,
'…often assigned to two persons as a masterpiece'.
Figure 45
Three examples
of drawings for
Dutch bricklayer's
masterpieces dated
1777, to be constructed
in gauged brickwork
and taken from
'Architectura of Bouw-
Konst' by Adrianus Erzy
1777.
