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

The Forty-second FIGURE.

John James translation

The Manner of avoiding Confusion, in reducing Plans and Elevations into Perspective.

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

The Reducing into Perspective the Plan of the Fortieth Figure, and the Upright of the Forty-first Figure, would become very confus’d, through the great Obliquity of the Rays: We have therefore remedy’d the Inconveniences of both, by the Methods explain’d in the Tenth and Eleventh Figures. And this Plate contains in little, what is more at large describ’d in Parts, as well in this, as the four subsequent Figures.

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. xliii.

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