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

The Forty-eighth FIGURE.

John James translation

The Geometrical Upright of the foregoing Ionick Design.

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

From this Figure (which distinctly shews the Composition of the whole Work, in respect of its Length) are taken the Heights and Terminations of the several Members thereof. But those that are skill’d in this Art, usually omit the delineating these Elevations; because the Terminations may be taken from the Plan A in the Forty-seventh Figure; and the Heights must be repeated in the following Figure.

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. xlix.

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