Lectures on the principles and practice of perspective, as delivered at the Royal Institution, accompanied with a mechanical apparatus, and illustrated by engravings / by John George Wood, F.A.S.
Lecture I. The art of perspective necessary to those who would paint or draw -- Definitions -- Preparation of the picture -- Ground-plane, picture, and point of distance placed upon one plane -- Lecture II. Of lines perpendicular to the picture -- Of lines oblique to the picture -- Of lines parallel to the picture -- Of vanishing lines -- General rules -- Lecture III. The square represented prospectively, one side being parallel to the picture -- Method of cutting off given portions from a line in perspective -- The perspective representation of the square, one side being given in the picture -- The square when perpendicular to the ground and picture -- The cube -- Buildings parallel to the picture -- Lecture IV. Square oblique to the picture -- Buildings ditto -- The circle applied to circular towers, wheels, etc -- The perspective of doors, etc, when open -- Lecture V. The line of elevation -- Arches -- Bridges -- Steps -- Lecture VI. Vanishing line -- Inclined planes -- Perspective of shadows -- Lecture VII. The meanders of a river -- Reflections in water -- Station or point of view -- A building placed in a picture according to a given scale -- The triangle -- Hexagon -- Directions for sketching from nature -- Conclusion