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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:

  1. “Dürer’s Door”, Albrecht Dürer, 1525
  2. Machine for Orthographic Projection, Hans Lencker, 1571
  3. “Perspectograph” (Perspective Device), Baldassare Lanci, 1583
  4. Projection Device, Ludovico Cigoli, 1600-13
  5. Pantograph, Christoph Scheiner, 1608
  6. Portable “Picture Box” Camera Obscura, Sir Robert Hooke, 1694
  7. Machine for Anamorphosis, Jacob Leupold, 1713
  8. Perspectograph, Johann Heinrich Lambert, 1752
  9. Camera Lucida, William Hyde Wollaston, 1803
  10. Profile Machine, Carl Augustus Schmalcalder, 1806
  11. “A verie easie way to describe a Towne or Castle being within the full sight thereof”, John Bate, 1634
  12. Drum Plotter “560”, Calcomp Technology, Inc. 1959