[Rarebooks] FS: 1829 Artist Perspective Manual by French Artillery Officer

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Manuel de Perspective, du Dessinateur et du Peintre”

By A.D. Vergnaud.
Published in Paris by Roret, Libraire in 1829. 3rd edition.

DISCUSSION: Proper perspective was essential to French Academic painting,
and who better to give practical and informed advice on getting
perspective, shadows, and angles in landscape and other subjects exactly
right than a Captain of Artillery and member of Paris’s Royal Academy of
Science? Actually I mean that seriously- artillery of the period was all
geometry, applied to landscape, as is perspective in paintings. The
artillerist or painter is faced with a block of buildings or a rolling,
treed landscape, and it’s much the same to capture it on canvas or drop a
cannonball into it. Illustrated with 6 charming engraved folding plates.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 3.5”x5.75”, ii + 253 pages plus 6 folding engraved
plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Period green/blue boards, spine perished, hinges weak,
ight scattered internal foxing and a light tide mark on the fore-edge
(please see the photos).

PRICE: $75-

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