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Satire on False Perspective is a work by the English artist and printmaker William Hogarth (1697–1764) in 1754, created for his friend Joshua Kirby’s pamphlet on linear perspective. Titled “Dr. Brook Taylor’s Method of Perspective Made Easy, Both in Theory and Practice”, usually abbreviated to “Kirby’s Perspective”, a print from an engraving produced by the Irish artist Luke Sullivan was published in the frontispiece.[1][2]
The lesson Hogarth is attempting to convey to his fellow artists is clearly stated in the caption to the image:[3]
Whoever makes a Design without the Knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such Absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece.
Among the many “Absurdities” are a man lighting his pipe from a distant candle, a flock of sheep growing bigger as they recede round a corner, and a foreground tavern sign obscured behind a distant tree.[2]
See also
- Penrose triangle
Visual representation of a triangular frame that could not exist in three-dimensional space.
