The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts (Band 2): Perspective, Architecture (London, 1808)

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LECTURE L

ON PERSPECTIVE*

Ladies and Gentlemkx,

I HAVE how the honour to open a second series of*
Discourses on the Principles of the Art s of Design :
In tins Lecture I propose more immediately to elu-
cidate the nature, and the general properties, of
Perspective. The recollection of the candour E
have experienced on former occasions, flatters me
with the hope of your equally cheerful attention to
the subjects of our present Series ; and I willingly
persuade myself, that our iate recesss has rather" en-
livened, than enervated, your desire for a further
acquaintance with these highly pleasing Studies; and
that, as their principles become more familiar, they
will likewise prove more agreeable, and more satis-
factory.

We have heretofore had occasion to admire that
wonderful contrivance (the eye), by which we not
only inspect objects around us, but also survey those
remote from us; to admire—that astonishing appa-
ratus which communicates to the mind those infn
nitely various ideas received by the sense of sight;
a further examination of this organ, will with pro-

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