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 23
pus & vires ad aliud Opus confcribendum BonitastDivina dederit, projetfiones quafcunque abfblvemus regula qua in prafentia uti Jbleo, ac mult a fa-cilior & imiverfalior eji regula communi & vulgata, quamvis hac Jit fundamentum alterius.Itaque, LeSlor (tudiofe, conjlanti animo negotium… … T O The Lovers of Perfpe£tive. HE Art of PERSPECTIVE does, with wonderful Pleafure, deceivethe Eye, the moft fubtle of all our outward Senfes 5 and is very necef-fary to be known of all, who in Painting would give a due Place andProportion to their Figures, and more or lefs Strength recjuifite to…
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