Essentials of Perspective: With Illustrations Drawn by the Author (1887)
Miller, Leslie William, 1848-1931 · New York: C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 41
o figures are placed side by side. The paintermay have had a very good reason for making the woman who is half-way up the steps rather more thana head taller than the one at the bottom; whether he had or.not does not form the subject of the present MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED BY PARALLELS. 31 inquiry,… … Fig- 39- look as if the master had been just a little careless in his drawing. In these last illustrations the propositionthat parallels between parallels are equal is exemplified only as applied to measuring the heights of objects;but the reader will remember that iu Figs. 28 and 29 horizontal…
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