Instrument for perspective drawing Size:M: 50 x 50cm Westminster Abbey from the River

Westminster Abbey from the River Thames

The monument is in memory of Thomas Bladen (1698-1780)

the scheme faced much criticism

It stemmed from an omission in the new Bankruptcy Act which meant that some officials of the Insolvent Court had lost pay

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:M: 50 x 50cm Westminster Abbey from the RiverPlate 14 figure 3 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 draw on a table top. Two boards are employed, one in a vertical position for viewing the original object, with a second flat, in a more natural drawing position. Inscribed in