Bird’s-Eye View of Longford Castle from the Thorpe Album

Bird’s-Eye View of Longford Castle from the Thorpe Album Vol. 101/158

This is how people drew who hadn’t really learnt the art of drawing in perspective. It was drawn between 1596 and 1603 and is from a book of drawings collected and drawn by the Thorpe family who were masons and architects in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.