Inside Out Library · Explore

The British drawing-book : or, the art of drawing with accuracy and beauty, containing a series of progressive lessons on drawing landscape scenery, marine views, architecture, animals, the human figure, &c. &c. also, a complete system of practical perspective, illustrated with numerous practical subjects (1845)

Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Published for the proprietor · leaf 97

An illustration from The British drawing-book : or, the art of drawing with accuracy and beauty, containing a series of progressive lessons on drawing landscape scenery, marine views, architecture, animals, the human figure, &c. &c. also, a complete system of practical perspective, illustrated with numerous practical subjects, 1845, leaf 97
ples, will at a glance observe, that the natural horizon (that is, theline formed where the sky and water appear to touch each other), is placed much higher in the picture than itought to be, if the horizontal line is always the height of a mans head. The observation would be correct, ifthe…

Drawing

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The British drawing-book : or, the art of drawing with accuracy and beauty, containing a series of progressive lessons on drawing landscape scenery, marine views, architecture, animals, the human figure, &c. &c. also, a complete system of practical perspective, illustrated with numerous practical subjects

More like this