Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom Scene shows adults and children

Scene shows adults and children looking at coach models

Original is oil 17

'A Railway Revolution'

View of Swiss Cottage

View with a figure collecting water

Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom Scene shows adults and childrenPlate 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