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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. M To view 'hem (as you'ld doe a piece of Perspectiue) in at a key-hole. View more context for this quotation

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 16 A Walking-Staff, Vermilion Gilt, in which was a piece of Perspective.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. v. §8 To direct them in those excellent pieces of Perspective, wherein by the help of a Prophetick glass they might see the Son of God fully represented.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 351 Those excellent landskips, and Dutch-works,..such pleasant pieces of perspectiue.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 159 Besides these, upon the same Mountains some pieces of perspective are elaborately and regularly cut, resembling the noblest sort of ancient structure.

1733 G. Berkeley Theory of Vision 54 Since Art can only deceive us as it imitates Nature, we need but observe Pieces of Perspective and Landschapes [sic], to be able to judge of this point.

1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 262 As in some pieces of perspective, by the pressure of the eye..the magnificent prospect is opened, and aggrandized, still more and more.

1770 J. Priestley Familiar Introd. Theory & Pract. Perspective 96 The draught will always appear a regular piece of perspective.

1947 F. Antal Florentine Painting & Social Background iii. 332 Such an experimental piece of perspective as the Healing of the Possessed Child..with its huge architectural construction divided by arches and foreshortened into the distance.

2003 Grove Dict. Art (electronic ed.) at Hoogstraten, Samuel van This piece of perspective [sc. The View Down a Corridor]..was one of several large works of this kind.