 They were not, however, the original drawings from which the plates were made, often being larger, and with the scenes populated with different figures.In 1798 he published "An Essay on British Cottage Architecture", described in its subtitle as "an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance".His later publications include a practical treatise on perspective called"The Young Painter's Mahlstick" (1800), four aquatints after drawings by Francis Keenan, issued as "A Select Collection of Views in the County of Devon" (1800) and " A Collection of Designs for Rural Retreats as Villas Principally in the Gothic and Castle Styles of Architecture" (1802).