Original design for frontispiece to joshua kirby, 'dr brooke taylor's method of perspective made easy'; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign is partly obscured by trees that are growing on the other side of a river, a woman leans from a window to light the pipe of a man on a distant hill; after hogarth; illustration to samuel ireland's 'graphic illustrations of hogarth' (london: 1799, vol. Ii, p. 134). Aquatint with etching. Date: 1799. Dimensions: Height: 235 mm (trimmed); Width: 170 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Joshua Kirby. Collection: British Museum. Satire on False Perspective (BM 1982,U.4002)
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