Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm Taken from the Stationers Almanack

Taken from the Stationers Almanack for the year 1819

View of the old lime works

View of Steelyard Wharf

'Explanation of Plate XIX'

with his arm raised

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm Taken from the Stationers AlmanackPlate 13 figure 1 from the paper 'Sketches and descriptions of three simple instruments for drawing architecture and machinery in perspective', by James Peacock, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 366 371. Instrument designed to prick holes in paper to coincide with points and angles on an original object being drawn. The instrument also enables the user to draw resulting perpendicular lines using a steel slider.