Chapter I: Front Matter

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Rules and Examples of
PERSPECTIVE
_PROPER FOR_
Painters and Architects, etc.

In English and Latin;

_Containing a most easie and expeditious Method to_
_DELINEATE in PERSPECTIVE_
All DESIGNS relating to ARCHITECTURE,
_AFTER A NEW MANNER_,
Wholly free from the Confusion of Occult Lines:

_BY THAT GREAT MASTER THEREOF_,
ANDREA POZZO, _Soc. Jes._

_Engraven in 105 ample folio Plates, and adorn’d with 200
Initial Letters to the Explanatory Discourses:
~Printed from Copper-Plates~ on y^{e} best Paper_

By John Sturt.

Done into English from the Original Printed at Rome 1693 in
Lat. and Ital.
_By M^{r} John James of Greenwich._

LONDON:
PRINTED by Benj. Motte, MDCCVII.
_Sold by John Sturt in Golden-Lion-Court in_
Aldersgate-Street.

PERSPECTIVA
PICTORUM
_ET_
ARCHITECTORUM,

_ANDREÆ PUTEI,
E SOCIETATE JESU._

In quâ docetur Modus expeditissimus Delineandi
Opticè omnia quę pertinent ad Architecturam.

LONDINI:
Juxta Exemplar ROMÆ excusum, MDCXCIII.
_Ex Sculpturâ Joannis Sturt, et ejusd. Curâ adornata_:
TYPIS Benj. Motte, MDCCVII.

TO

Her most Sacred Majesty,

QUEEN ANNE.

_May it please your Majesty!_

_The Condescension of the late Emperor of ~Germany~ to patronize this ~WORK~ in the ~Original~, could not have incited me to the Presumption of laying the ~Translation~ at Your Royal Feet; had not the ~Art~ of ~PERSPECTIVE~, of which it treats, been so nearly ally’d to the Noble Arts of ~PAINTING~ and ~ARCHITECTURE~. The ~First~ of these Your Majesty has been pleas’d to honour, as well in expressing a Satisfaction with the Performances, as in extending Your Royal Munificence to that great Master thereof, Signor ~Verrio~._

_AND although Affairs of higher Consequence have hitherto deferr’d Your Majesty’s Commands for Raising ~WHITE-HALL~ from its Ruins; yet has not ~Architecture~ been without Encouragement, under ~Your Majesty’s~ Most Auspicious Reign: Witness the great Dispatch lately given to those Noble Fabricks of S. ~PAUL’s~, ~Greenwich~-Hospital, and ~Blenheim~._

_THESE seem to presage, that a Time is coming, when, through the Blessing of Peace, and the Happy Influence of Your Majesty’s Government; ~WHITE-HALL~ shall become a Structure worthy its Great ~Restorer~, and its Name as much Celebrated among ~Palaces~, as Your Royal Vertues are Illustrious among ~Princes~: When Your Majesty’s Subjects shall exert themselves as much to their Country’s Honour, in the ~Arts~ of ~Design~, and ~Civil Architecture~; as they have already done in the ~Art Military~, and ~Personal Valour~._

_PRELIMINARY to such Happy Season, I presume this ~Art of Perspective made Practicable~, may not be improper; being One of the most Useful, though hitherto the most Obscure and Confus’d, of all the Lineary Arts. I therefore, with all Submission, beg Leave to supplicate Your Majesty’s Pardon for this Address, and Your Gracious Protection of this Specimen of ~English~ Graving; to which if ~Your Majesty~ vouchsafe ~Your~ Royal ~PATRONAGE~, it will effectually animate the future Endeavours of,_

May it please Your Majesty!

_Your Most Obedient Subject_,

J. STURT.