To Find the Vanishing of Any Building, one side being given
18th century
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and wash, over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/4 x 15 in. (23.5 x 38.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.632.80
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 18th British architectural drawing with *To Find the Vanishing Any Building, one side given*, an anonymous work from the Metropolitan Museum of's Elisha Whittelsey Collection. Created in pen and ink with brush and wash over graphite a modest 9¼ x 15-inch sheet, this piece serves as a practical instructional diagram. The enigmatic title reveals its purpose: guiding draftsmen in mastering linear perspective by determining the "vanishing point"—where parallel lines converge—for rendering building facades when only one side is visible. In an era when neoclassical ...