Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom View of Swiss Cottage

View of Swiss Cottage

4th August 1961

actor Tom Baker - the 4th Doctor - pictured with assistant Leela played by actress Louise Jameson

Perspective view of the revolving temple erected for the peace celebrations of 1814

Instrument for perspective drawing Anteroom View of Swiss CottagePlate 14 figure 2 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 determine the position of lines on an original object being drawn. Inscribed in ink 'Fig. 2' and in pencil and ink above with publication details and instructions to the