La perspectiue pratique : necessaire a tous peintres, graueurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfeures, brodeurs, tapissiers, et autres qui se meslent de desseigner
La perspectiue pratique is a 1647 perspective manual published in Paris by the widow of François L'Anglois, written by Jean Dubreuil and intended for painters, engravers, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, embroiderers and other designers. The pages shown are numbered geometric plates with constructions of squares, hexagons, octahedra and a cube in perspective. A designer could take from them the clean line diagrams of projected solids and the hatched tonal shading used to show faces and volumes.
