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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 78

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ssed by saying that the line is foreshortened. This effect has been illustrated with the wire, the threads, and the model of the eye; the teacher further exemplifies the proposition by moving a straight wire slowly round, presenting it in succes- sion to the several members of the class in such… … namely: that by inclining the model back from the class, its height, which before had appeared greater

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