01 Katsushka Hokusai, Interior of a Theatre ,1788 the performance of a Kabuki play at Edo, 26 x 38cms, wood engraving. Hokusai was much influenced by the conventions of vanishing point persepective.

02 Utagawa Kuninga, The tomb of the Maurya kings in Asia , from the series New Dutch perspective prints, 1825, 26 x 38 cms.

03 Jacques de Cerceu, Lecons de Perspective Positifs, Paris, 1576

04 from Dubreuil

05 from Robert Fludde's Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica.. ., Oppenheim 1617; a drawing frame for artists allowing transcriptions from nature.

06 classic diagram from WORLD OF WONDER a children's encyclopaedia of the 1930's.

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09  Albrecht Durer, Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt. ... Nuremburg, Formschneyder for the author, 1525." A Course in the art of measurement"

10 A drawing by Michael Folkes and reproduced in FOUGASSE's book of professional reflections, The Good Tempered Pencil , Max Reinhardt London 1956. "I expect the perspective will be hopeless as usual."

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12 Andrea Pozzo Rules and Examples of Perspective for Painters and Architects..., London c1707.

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15 Judging the distances on a Depth Machine for Road safety, American photograph December 1949.

16 Andrea Pozzo Rules and Examples of Perspective for Painters and Architects..., London c1707.

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19 Andrea Pozzo Rules and Examples of Perspective for Painters and Architects..., London c1707.

20, 21, 22 Gwen White (born 1903 ) from A Book of Pictorial Perspective published by Murray, London, 1955Gwen White worked extensively and taught widely during her career. She worked on BBC publications for children but she is best known for the two books on pattern and perspective, extensions of her teaching at Farnham and St.Albans. Her major achievement, A Book of Dolls (1956) is an excellent attempt to convey detailed information in art work rather than by saturation photographic coverage.
 
Two plates from A Book of Pictorial Perspective published by Murray, London, 1955, page size 20 x 26cms. This was an ingenious concept, A Lift Up Book, "Each black and white page... when lifted towards the light shows a coloured picture through the paper." See also Gwen White's A World of Pattern, 1957, and both printed by Cowell's of Ipswich by lithography. Here are two pages that relate on holding them to the light to reveal the other. The other image is the design for the endpapers.

an illustration form Pacioli, Divina Proportione, 1509

OTHERS

Lorenzo Sirigatti, La pratica di prospettiva , published by Franceschi in Venice 1596.

Jean Pelerin, Perspectiva , Jacob, Frankfurt, 1546.

Hans Lencker, Perspectiva. ... Gerlatz, Nuremburg, 1571

Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et Perspectiva , Augsberg 1567 and published by Michael Manger.
Giulio Troili, Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla... ,Bologna, 1683, by G.Longhi. 1567 and published by Michael Manger.

from Serlio, Five Books of Architecture , Second Book, English edition 1611

Louis Bretez, La Perspective Practique de l"Architecture ,Paris 1706, a curious emblematic temple with a statue of Mercury at its heart.

BOOKLIST

Useful publications on perspective

Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, Yale University Press, New Haven , 1983.

Laurence Wright, Perspective on Perspective ,Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1983

Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion ,London 1960

Dan Pedoe, Geometry and the Liberal Arts, Penguin London 1976

E.Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts, Penguin Harmondsworth 1970, see "The History of the Theory of Human Proportions"

Albrecht Durer, Underweysung der messung... Formschneyder at Nurenburg for the author 1525. The artist on the stool is pricking out a drawing of the lute seen on the table. The assistant holds back the drawing that would have been made by this method.