Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. in English and Latin :‡bcontaining 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 /‡cby that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Soc. Jef. engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses ; printed from copper-plates ony 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 (1693)
Pozzo, Andrea · J Senex and R Gosling · leaf 161
FIGURA Quadrageiimaquinta. Dimidium sedificii DORICI optice deformati. XJICJigUrce delineandtf plures praiverunt, ejuf-demque latitudines mutuati fumus ex figuraquadragefirnatertia, altitadines ex quadrage-Jimaquarta. Supereji autem, ut lumina &umbrtffcite inducantnr injtngulas partes adificii. … The Forty-fifth FIGURE. One Half of the DO RICK Deftgn in Perfpettive. HE foregoing Figures being preparatoryto this, the Breadths are taken from theForty-third, and the Heights from theForty-fourth Figure. It only remains,that the Lights and Shades be skilfullydifposd to each Part of the Work.
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