Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom View with a figure collecting

View with a figure collecting water

'The City carriers'

Perspective view of the revolving temple erected for the peace celebrations of 1814

View of Swiss Cottage

Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom View with a figure collectingPlate 14 figure 2 from the paper 'Sketches and descriptions of three simple instruments for drawing architecture and machinery in perspective', by James Peacock, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 366 371. Instrument designed to allow the user to determine the position of lines on an original object being drawn. Inscribed in ink 'Fig. 2' and in pencil and ink above with publication details and instructions to the