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 292
The Eighty-feventh FIGURE. The Preparation necejjary to the following Figure, and toall other horizontal PerJ^eBives, whether on fat or vaultedCielings. … HE Figure A A reprefents one offour Walls of a Hall, whofe trueIH you would have appear raisdby painting a Baluftrade in the Cithereof B is the Geometricalthe fourth part of the faid Cielin theght ofCis the Elevation of half the Breadth ; D is the Sedionthe Cornice and Corbels; E is the Elevation…
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