Instrument for perspective drawing mb-width 6001 29th March 1977

29th March 1977

South-east prospect of the Church of St Peter-le-Poer

then it is to all intents and purposes

magnified 9 times

Zoological study showing specimens of the barnacle described here as Lepas hameri

Instrument for perspective drawing mb-width 6001 29th March 1977Plate 14 figure 2 from the paper 'Sketches and descriptions of three simple instruments for drawing architecture and machinery in perspective', by James Peacock, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 366 371. Instrument designed to allow the user to determine the position of lines on an original object being drawn. Inscribed in ink 'Fig. 2' and in pencil and ink above with publication details and instructions to the