The practice of painting and perspective made easy : in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new, short, and familiar account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares
Thomas Bardwell's 1756 London treatise on oil painting and perspective, printed by S. Richardson for the author and sold through Millar and the Dodsleys, was aimed at amateur and student painters. Its copper-plate pages set out step-by-step perspective constructions beside finished views of garden walls, avenues, and ruined arches, showing how vanishing points and orthogonals build a convincing receding space a designer can reuse for layout grids and depth.
