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===British orders=== [[Robert Adam]]'s brother [[James Adam (architect)|James]] was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of [[Charles-Louis Clérisseau|Clérisseau]]; he invented a "British order" and published an engraving of it. Its capital the heraldic lion and unicorn take the place of the Composite's volutes, a Byzantine or Romanesque conception, but expressed in terms of neoclassical realism. Adam's ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting is at the [[Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library|Avery Library]], [[Columbia University]]. In 1789 [[George Dance the Younger|George Dance]] invented an [[Ammonite order]], a variant of Ionic, substituting volutes in the form of [[fossil]] [[ammonite]]s for [[John Boydell]]'s [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery|Shakespeare Gallery]] in [[Pall Mall, London]].<ref name="oxford22">{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |last2=Wilson |first2=Susan |year=2016 |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-967499-2 |page=22}}</ref> An adaptation of the Corinthian order by [[William Donthorne]] that used turnip leaves and [[mangelwurzel]] is termed the Agricultural order.<ref>Curl, p. 238</ref><ref>Curl, p. 11</ref> [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]], who from 1912 laid out [[New Delhi]] as the new seat of government for the [[British Empire in India]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Gradidge |first=Roderick |title=Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate |year=1981 |publisher=George Allen and Unwin |location=London, UK |isbn=0-04-720023-5 |page=69}}</ref> designed a Delhi order having a capital displaying a band of vertical ridges, and with bells hanging at each corner as a replacement for volutes.<ref name=Gradidge151>{{cite book |last=Gradidge |first=Roderick |title=Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate |year=1981 |publisher=George Allen and Unwin |location=London |isbn=0-04-720023-5 |page=151}}</ref> His design for the new city's central palace, Viceroy's House, now the Presidential residence [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]], was a thorough integration of elements of [[Indian architecture]] into a building of classical forms and proportions,<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilhide |first=Elizabeth |year=2012 |title=Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English tradition |publisher=National Trust Books |location=London |isbn=9781907892271 |pages=41–42}}</ref> and made use of the order throughout.<ref name=Gradidge151/> The Delhi Order reappears in some later Lutyens buildings including [[Campion Hall, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gradidge |first=Roderick |year=1981 |title=Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate |publisher=George Allen and Unwin |location=London |isbn=0-04-720023-5 |page=161}}</ref> {{clear}} {{external media | width = 210px | float = left | video1 =[https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/greek-art/beginners-guide-greece/v/the-classical-orders The Classical orders] – a Smarthistory video.}}
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