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Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.

The FORTIETH FIGURE.

John James translation

The Geometrical Plan of a Design, of the Dorick Order.

Illustration from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture

For the Benefit of the Studious, who, having reduc’d to Practice the Rules hitherto laid down, aim at yet greater Things; I have here undertaken to delineate half an Arch adorn’d with three Columns, and as many Niches for Statues. But to avoid Confusion, I have given full Lines to those Members only, which were mention’d in the Thirty-eighth Figure, and which are here denoted by the Characters A, B, C, D, E.

Illustration from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture

Fig. xli.

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