Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm 'Donati's Comet

'Donati's Comet

Taken from the Stationers Almanack for the year 1819

Interior of the Ford works

'Explanation of Plate XIX'

View of Steelyard Wharf

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:S: 40 x 30cm 'Donati's CometPlate 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.