Inside Out Library

The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 395

An illustration from The Decorator's assistant, 1847, leaf 395
rism, and to place a Pyramid1 on its upper Surface or Plane. Draw A B equal to 4 feet, raise A e and e/per-pendicular to A B, and equal 1 foot, join e f, drawB c in any oblique direction toward the rioht,make b c equal A b, draw / g, e h, and a D°aliparallel and equal to d c ; join hg,hD, d c,… … land; the remote end of this road, we say, is at aninfinite distance. At the near end of this road, imagine a plane ofglass of infinite extent, placed perpendicularly onthe road, so that the sides of the road may be per-pendicular to the plane of the glass. Now ima-gine a spectator placed at the…

Design · Decoration and ornament · Art

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Decorator's assistant

More like this