Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 35
irections. PERSPECTIVE. Perspective is the art of drawing on a plain surfacethe true representation or appearance of any given ob-ject, as it would appear upon a pane of glass when heldupright between you and the object. 32 DRAWING. The eye of a person when sketching from nature ispresumed to be… … 60° has no reference to the length of lines on eitherside, since they are regulated by the assumed width ofthe picture proposed to be drawn; for instance, if yourperspective plane be some distance from you, the ob-jects would be larger; if nearer, the objects would besmaller — both pictures…
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