Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm wedding to Colin Lenton Rowe

wedding to Colin Lenton Rowe aged 27

'Explanation of Plate XIX'

'The hopes of the party

Taken from the Stationers Almanack for the year 1819

The house is almost completely devoid of furniture apart from an overturned table and chair

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm wedding to Colin Lenton RowePlate 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.