La perspective pratiqve : necessaire a tovs peintres, graveurs, architectes, brodeurs, scvlpteurs, orfevres, tapissiers, et autres qui se meslent de desseigner
A 1663 Paris treatise on perspective by Jean Dubreuil, written as a practical manual for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, sculptors, goldsmiths, upholsterers and other designers. Its plates are numbered 'Pratique' sections showing solids in perspective beside their orthogonal plans and elevations. The pictures show geometric solids such as cubes, prisms, and polyhedra floating above a ground line with construction lines radiating to a vanishing point. A designer could take from them the method of constructing a form in space by pairing a perspective view with a measured plan drawn on a grid.
