Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 160
in the same horizontal plane with them, and being in the vertical plane of the ridge 88 APPLIED PERSPECTIVE is at right angles with ae) must intersect on it. Therefore we extend ab1 till it meetsdVin h, and draw euh, which must contain the mitre line at e. Upon this mitre linewe project the… … ^ s ENTABLATURE IN PERSPECTIVE Fig. 136 is the corner of a modillioned entablature, with the plan and elevation atthe scale of the perspective. The perspective could be made from geometric drawingson a smaller scale, but in constructing architectural detail it is best to make the neces-sary…
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