Practical perspective; or, an easy method of representing natural objects, according to the rules of art. Applied and exemplified in all the variety of cases; as landscapes, gardens, and buildings, their appendages, parts, and furniture; with rules for the proportion and position of figures, in draught and relievo: and the manner of conducting the shadows, produced either by natural or artificial luminaries: and practical methods of drawing after nature, when the process of rules are not understood. A work highly necessary for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing. The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris. Translated by E. Chambers, F.R.S. author of Cyclopædia, or an Universal dictionary of arts and sciences. Seventh edition. To which is prefixed, the theory of perspective, by James Hodgson, F.R.S.

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[ca 1785-1795]