SCENOGRAPHY

, in Perspective, the perspective representation of a body on a plane; or a description and view of it in all its parts and dimensions, such as it appears to the eye in any oblique view.

This differs essentially from the ichnography and the orthography. The ichnography of a building, &c, represents the plan or ground work of the building, or section parallel to it; and the orthography the elevation, or front, or one side, also in its natural dimensions; but the Scenography exhibits the whole of the building that appears to the eye, front, sides, height, and all, not in their real dimensions or extent, but raised on the geometrical plan in perspective.

In architecture and fortification, Scenography is the manner of delineating the several parts of a building or fortress, as they are represented in perspective.

To exhibit the Scenography of any body. 1. Lay down the basis, ground-plot, or plan, of the body, in the perspective ichnography, that is, draw the perspec- tive appearance of the plan or basement, by the proper rules of perspective. 2. Upon the several points of the said perspective plan, raise the perspective heights, and connect the tops of them by the proper slope or oblique lines. So will the Scenography of the body be completed, when a proper shade is added. See Perspective.