A supplement to "The amateur's perspective"
A supplement to a manual of perspective by Richard Davenport, printed for the author in London in 1829, aimed at amateur draughtsmen learning to construct pictures by geometric rule. The pictures are numbered line diagrams of ships, figures and cliffs set between vertical picture-plane lines, with dotted sight lines converging on a vanishing point labelled v.p. and horizon lines marked h, showing how receding objects shrink to a common point. A designer could take from them a clear method for staging a receding row of boats or figures across a horizon.
