‘I T House’ from the Thorpe Album
‘I T House’ from the Thorpe Album Vol. 101/50
Here is another drawing from the same book, drawn at about the same time, but this draughtsman, probably John Thorpe, had a much better idea of perspective. He has designed a house with the shape of his initials ‘I T’ (the letter ‘J’ is written as an ‘I’ copying the style of the Romans who had no letter ‘J’). The plan is on a separate sheet of paper which you can see here underneath the perspective. He was influenced by Androuet du Cerceau’s treatise on perspective.