Instrument for perspective drawing Size:M: 50 x 50cm 1812 showing the Monument and

1812 showing the Monument and St Magnus the Martyr on the left with two women in the foreground

The monument is in memory of Thomas Bladen (1698-1780)

One of them is attacking the Crown and Anchor sign with a sword

Walworth Common

Instrument for perspective drawing Size:M: 50 x 50cm 1812 showing the Monument andPlate 14 figure 3 from the paper "Sketches and descriptions of three simple instruments for drawing architecture and machinery in perspective", by James Peacock, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 366 371. Instrument designed to allow the user to draw on a table top. Two boards are employed, one in a vertical position for viewing the original object, with a second flat, in a more natural drawing position. Inscribed in