Delamotte, Philip Henry, 1821-1889 · London : G. Bell · leaf 111
law, whilst knowledge of the theoretical applications of the law may be acquired from mathematical works of more or less abstruseness, and, to some extent, from the ordinary manuals on perspective. The experiments we have here indicated will be found sufficient to give the eye the power of seeing… … in sketching. If we knew what we saw, we should not have much difficulty in committing our impressions to paper, as may be seen in the facility with which most people can make a very fair copy of a good work by a great master, which they would not dream of attempting to rival in an original…
