An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry, and a compendium of genuine instruction ...
An 1820 London treatise on perspective, drawing and painting by Charles Hayter, written as dialogues between the author's children and illustrated with geometric plates. The pictures are rigorous line diagrams of boxes, chairs, a checkerboard floor and a cross on a ground plan, built from vanishing points, horizon lines and sightlines. A designer could draw on them for spatial construction grids, one-point and two-point perspective studies, and schematic technical illustration.
