MachineDrawing DrawingMachines by Pablo Garcia – in which twelve drawings of historical drawing machines are drawn by a computer numerical controlled machine.
The CNC machine draws each drawing in ink on Stonehenge artist’s paper. Edition of four.
Plates:
- “Dürer’s Door”, Albrecht Dürer, 1525
- Machine for Orthographic Projection, Hans Lencker, 1571
- “Perspectograph” (Perspective Device), Baldassare Lanci, 1583
- Projection Device, Ludovico Cigoli, 1600-13
- Pantograph, Christoph Scheiner, 1608
- Portable “Picture Box” Camera Obscura, Sir Robert Hooke, 1694
- Machine for Anamorphosis, Jacob Leupold, 1713
- Perspectograph, Johann Heinrich Lambert, 1752
- Camera Lucida, William Hyde Wollaston, 1803
- Profile Machine, Carl Augustus Schmalcalder, 1806
- “A verie easie way to describe a Towne or Castle being within the full sight thereof”, John Bate, 1634
- Drum Plotter “560”, Calcomp Technology, Inc. 1959
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