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

The SIXTIETH FIGURE.

John James translation

An Octangular Tabernacle in 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

I have sometimes made use of this Tabernacle for the Exposition of the Forty Hours. If the Colours are laid by a skilful Hand, on two Ranges of Cloth, and the Frame cut away according to the Out-line of the Work, they will wonderfully deceive the Eye, and appear as solid; but then the outer Range must be drawn after the Plan and Elevation of the Part DF in the foregoing Figure; and the inner Range after that of EC; in all things observing the Rules hitherto deliver’d.

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. lxi.

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