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A manual for teaching model-drawing : from solid forms, the models founded on those of M. Dupuis : combined with a popular view of perspective, and adapted to the elementary instruction of classes in schools and public institutions (1843)

Williams, J. Butler, Sir, Lowry, Joseph Wilson, 1803-1879 · London : J. W. Parker · leaf 124

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by a straight line. First Position. The model above the level of the eye, one leg oy the triangle vertical, the other parallel to the sides of the room, the angle being next to the class. Those pupils in the middle of the room who may be in the same vertical plane as the figure, or in the direction… … Middle. Right. removed from the middle of the room, the wider does the triangle appear, the less obtuse does the angle next the class become, and the less does the base of the triangle depart from the horizontal direction. The triangle appears obtuse-angled.

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