Perspective treatise for artists with architectural orders
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Perspective treatise for artists with architectural orders
Original title :Traité de Perspective à l'usage des Artistes 1750
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JEAURAT Edme Sébastien, engineer and royal geographer. Treatise on Perspective for the Use of Artists, demonstrating all practices of this science and teaching, according to the method of M. le Clerc, how to render all types of objects in perspective, their reflection in water, and their shadows, both in sunlight and by lamplight. Published by Charles Antoine Jombert, Paris 1750.…
JEAURAT Edme Sébastien, engineer and royal geographer. Treatise on Perspective for the Use of Artists, demonstrating all practices of this science and teaching, according to the method of M. le Clerc, how to render all types of objects in perspective, their reflection in water, and their shadows, both in sunlight and by lamplight. Published by Charles Antoine Jombert, Paris 1750. Full leather binding, brick-colored edges, worn corners, missing upper headband, slight rubbing on one cover, 5 cm crack on spine, fresh interior. Quarto format (20.5 x 26 cm), VI & 240 pages. First edition illustrated with 110 plates (plus 15 duplicate plates) separate from text illustrating perspective lessons and 56 allegorical tailpieces by Babel. Final 9 plates depict architectural orders. Work divided into 116 mathematical lessons applicable to painting, architecture, and other disciplines, each lesson accompanied by facing plate. Rare copy.