Satire on False Perspective is the title of an engraving produced by William Hogarth in 1754 for his friend John Joshua Kirby's pamphlet on linear perspective.
The intent of the work is clearly given by the subtitle:
Whoever makes a without the Knowledge of will be liable to such Absurdities as are shewn in this Frontiſpiece
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