Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783-1853, Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson, 1823-1875 · London : Winsor and Newton · leaf 23
21 THE VERTICAL LINE. point E above, than it would be to place it below, the horizontal line. Upon the length of the vertical line E C, depends the just and natural representation of objects. If it be too short, they will appear unsatisfactory, and more or less distorted. The following example will… … A block of wood or stone (Fig. 3) is to be represented at different distances ; it has a square base, and is seen in a position in which its sides are oblique to the plane of the
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