Lezioni di prospettiva pratica e regole abbreviatrici per disegnare le scene : seguite da un facile metodo per la prospettica collocazione delle figure ne' quadri di storia
An 1855 Italian manual of practical perspective by Francesco Cocchi, with engravings by Lorenzo Ruggi, published in Bologna for students of drawing and history painting. The pictures are sparse: a dense, scratchy black-and-white plate of a wireframe box floating over an abstract ground, and a small vignette of a tilted perspective grid with a cluster of objects on a pale green page. A designer might take from them the use of a receding grid as a structural device and the contrast between heavy textured fields and fine linear construction.
