Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9813
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Instrument for perspective drawing
Date
1785
Creator
James Peacock (1735 - 1814, British) , Architect
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 300mm
width (painting): 194mm
width (painting): 194mm
Subject
Description
Plate 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 printer. Not signed.
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 printer. Not signed.
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