Free-hand drawing : a guide to ornamental, figure, and landscape drawing (1868)
Art student · Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo · leaf 81
besupposed to exist, one extremity of which starts fromthe said imaginary point, the other extremity being inthe students eye. This line would be represented ashorizontal in a perspective illustration (see fig. 34), if HORIZONTAL LINES. 73 the base of the buildings were level, i.e., neitheruphill… … Fig. 34. ings, and at some distance from them, he would perceivethat such a supposed line must run parallel with bothbase and roof. But in his position, at one end ofthe row, the upper and lower lines appear to tend inthe direction of the horizontal line which he hasimagined. The roof tends…
Drawing · Decoration and ornament · Figure drawing
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