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Résumé et application des principes élémentaires de la perspective

Farcy, Charles François, 1792-1867, Langlumé, Pierre, 1790- · 1822 · A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de A. Bobée · 6 pictures

A French treatise on linear perspective, published in Paris in 1822 by Charles François Farcy with plates after Pierre Langlumé, written as a teaching manual for draughtsmen and architects. Its plates are engraved views of streets, aqueducts, gardens and canal-side buildings, each built on a clear vanishing point, so a designer can study how receding lines and scale make a single scene read as deep space.

Perspective · Drawing

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