A guide to pictorial perspective : with numerous illustrations (1851)
Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808-1876 · London : George Rowney and Co. · leaf 39
PAEALLEL VIEW. [Plate 6. I … ROOF LINES. 25 The Oblique view is generally preferred to the Parallelfor buildings in a landscape, especially if detached, notonly from the circumstance of the lines presenting a morepleasing contrast to the eye, but as exhibiting the propor-tions and the dispositions of their parts to greater…