Instrument for perspective drawing mb-code 1620165 9th December 1974

9th December 1974

like Faust

The remains of Fleet Prison showing advertisements on boards

an omnibus and figures in the street below

Instrument for perspective drawing mb-code 1620165 9th December 1974Plate 14 figure 3 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 draw on a table top. Two boards are employed, one in a vertical position for viewing the original object, with a second flat, in a more natural drawing position. Inscribed in