As you enter Lothbury Court (hauling a load of bullion in a cart behind you no doubt) impressive flights of steps rise on both sides, but straight ahead … a triumphal arch in the Roman manner. It’s almost a month since I set to work on this.
It was already roughed out, but needed to be lifted to the next level of development. There are four statues atop of four Corinthian columns. I don’t know if there’s a proper term for the way the entablature is projected over the columns in a series of spurs that act as bases for the statues. And I don’t know who the four mythical creatures are. I’m sure they have signigicance. For now I am simply using the grecian maiden who serves as a caryatid in a couple of the transfer halls. That’s the only mesh I have which is remotely suitable, so it will have to do.
The central panel at this level is a key pattern. We only have a very grainy image to base this on, so I blew it up and traced over the image freehand on my phone. That gave me…