Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Highmore, Joseph, 1692-1780
Title:
The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.
Published / Created:
London, Printed for A. Millar, and J. Nourse, 1763.
Physical Description:
xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates by James Basire.
Subject Terms:
Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain) -- Binding. | Millar, A. -- Publisher. | Nourse, J. -- Publisher. | Perspective -- Early works to 1800. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1763.
Contributors:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731. | Basire, James, 1730–1802, ill.