DMJ 2 — Drawing Instruments: Instrumental Drawings

i. Editors’ Introduction

02 Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches
and the Camera Obscura —
Philip Steadman

29 Helen Dorey on Sir John Soane’s
drawing office

44 The Art of Measuring Images:
Albrecht Meydenbauer and the
Invention of the Photographic
Survey — Emma Letizia Jones

75 Pablo Garcia on the Zeiss
Stereoautograph

84 Pencils, Computers, Cameras:
Itsuko Hasegawa’s Instruments
of Distance — Ahmed Belkhodja

111 Laura Harty on Aldo van Eyck
and circles

114 Instruments of Uncertain
Occupation — Nat Chard

147 Philip Steadman on Isambard
Kingdom Brunel’s camera lucida

150 Grids and Squared Paper in
Renaissance Architecture —
Fabio Colonnese

175 Sue Palmer on Soane’s
instruments

178 On Lines Terrestrial and Occult:
Friedrich Gilly, Alberto Sartoris,
Adolphe Appia, and the Matter
of Perspective — Ross Anderson

195 Neil Bingham on the history
of drawing instruments

206 The Sun as Drawing Machine:
Towards the Unification of Projection
Systems from Villalpando to Farish
— Francisco Javier Girón Sierra

233 Rosie Ellison-Balaam on
Enzo Mari’s optical dynamism

236 Devices of Dream-Like Precision:
Tracing the Streets of Kyoto using
Photogrammetry and Layered
Drawing — Sayan Skandarajah

257 Paddi Alice Benson’s laser
drawings

266 Borromini’s Smudge —
Jonathan Foote

Publisher
Drawing Matter Trust

Editor-in-Chief
Mark Dorrian

Guest Editor
Paul Emmons

Editorial Assistants
Paddi Alice Benson

Drawing Matter
Maria Mitsoula, Sophie Wehtje, Matt Page, Susie Dowding, Jackie Brooks, Rosie Ellison-Balaam, Orinta Fowler, Cassandra Truan

Copy Editing
Elisabeth Ingles

Advisory Committee
Stan Allen, Brian Carter, Paul Carter, Maarten Delbeke, Mark Dorrian, Paul Emmons, Anthony Geraghty, Niall Hobhouse, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Tim Ingold, Peter Wilson

Peer Review Statement
Long-form articles submitted to DMJournal are subject to a double-bind peer review process, involving two readers. Accepted articles are subsequently developed for publication in close dialogue with the editors.

Images
All efforts have been made to secure rights for images reproduced in this issue. In the event of omissions, rights holders should contact DMJournal via the editorial address.

Design
Cartlidge Levene

No. 2: Drawing Instruments: Instrumental Drawings
Spring 2024
© The Authors and DMJournal, 2024.

The Editors would like to thank
Julia Bloomfield; Brian Carter; Cartlidge Levene (Ian Cartlidge, Simon Young, and Ellen Jonsson); Elisabeth Ingles; Perry Kulper; Nicholas Olsberg; Tess van Eyck Wickham; all those who submitted
articles under the issue theme and the anonymous peer-reviewers who commented on the texts.