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

The Twenty-first Figure.

John James translation

The Tuscan Capital 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

The Manner before deliver’d concerning Bases, is of the same Use in delineating Capitals; forasmuch as these also have their square Abacus, and their round Members. The Ground-line in Capitals is usually plac’d above the Horizon; because when they are set upon Columns which exceed a Man’s Height, they are generally represented above the Eye.

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. xxii.

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