Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm with his arm raised

with his arm raised

Taken from the Stationers Almanack for the year 1819

wedding to Colin Lenton Rowe aged 27

'The hopes of the party

given the standard engines and sold as MGA-Deluxe models

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm with his arm raisedPlate 13 figure 1 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 prick holes in paper to coincide with points and angles on an original object being drawn. The instrument also enables the user to draw resulting perpendicular lines using a steel slider.