Perspective - Early works to 1800

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The method of learning to draw in perspective made easy and fully explained . As also, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons, with Receipts for making them after the French and Italian Manner. Likewise, a new and curious method of japaning either upon glass, wood, or any metal, so as to imitate china; and to make black or gilt Japan-Ware, as Beautiful and Light as any brought from the East-Indies; with proper Directions for making the hardest and most transparent Varnishes. And particularly the way to cast amber in any shape. Chiefly from the Mss. of the great Mr. Boyle.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]
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Perspective made easie or, the art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations [sic]. ... Illustrated with above fifty figures ... Written originally in French, by Bernard Lamy, ... and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.
Lamy, Bernard, 1640-1715.Date: 1710
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The art of drawing in perspective made easy to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics. By James Ferguson, F.R.S. Illustrated with plates.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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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, After a New Manner, Wholly free from the Confusion of Occult Lines: by that Great Master Thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Socjes. Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the Explanatory Discourses: Printed from Copper-Plates on Ye best Paper by John Sturt. Done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. By Mr. John James of Greenwich
Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709.Date: [1707]
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Perspective made easy: or, a new method for practical perspective. Shewing the use of a new-invented senographical protractor; so easy, that a Person, tho' an intire Stranger to Perspective, may, by Reading a few Lines, become Master of the Instrument, without the help of a Master. It's Useful in taking the Perspective Draughts of Towns, Countrys, Houses, and Gardens, or any Objects whatever; much easier than what has hitherto been Practised. With several useful Examples in Practical Perspective. together with the draughts of several remarkable places, in and about the cities of Bristol and Bath; in twenty-six copper plates. By William Halfpenny
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]