Copy of the frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book, a paper with geometrical figures struck by a ray from the rising sun
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Description:
Paulson's title for the print on which this is based: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture, "Page 179"--Top right., Original drawing in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 235., and On page 185 in volume 2.