The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective, containing rules and principles for delineation on planes ... : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing
A practical perspective manual by James Malton, published in London in 1800 for drawing students, adapting the mechanical methods of Vignola and Sirigatti to Brook Taylor's theory. The engraved plates pair lettered construction diagrams — vanishing points, radiating sightlines, dotted ground lines — with small grey-washed blocks, pitched-roof houses and one ruined castle, giving designers usable geometric scaffolding and lettered notation.
