Instrument for perspective drawing mb-width 6001 armoury and military store

armoury and military store

Original is oil on panel 73x62

29th March 1977

South-east prospect of the Church of St Peter-le-Poer

Figures 1-10 Chionaspis aspidistrae

Instrument for perspective drawing mb-width 6001 armoury and military storePlate 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