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 256
gure,and are iupposd to ftand perpendicularly in their Grooves 5 all which isalfo reprefented in P and Q. or the Seventy-fecond Figure. I would haveyou oblerve, how much the Floor rifes, from its Edge A, to the PofceneD, and to the Point of the Theater O. You mould alio note the Ele-vation of each… … not to the Point of Sight O, but to the Point F. But if the feeming Excefs, which the Line B K hasat top and at bottom, above the Line LI, be transferrd en the Side of the Scenes E, (which Excefsmay alfo be taken from the Seventy-fourth Figure) and you draw the Lines L G, IH 5 thefe Lineswill…
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