A guide to pictorial perspective : with numerous illustrations (1851)
Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808-1876 · London : George Rowney and Co. · leaf 43
he simple char-acter of the architecture; the lines of the buildings con-sisting for the most part of horizontal and vertical lines. In the class of domestic subjects, and portraiture, it isseldom that (besides the floor) more than a portion of theend of a room and of one side are introduced,… … 27 Chapter VI.*OBLIQUE VIEW. The appearance of the simple cottage-roof in the Obliqueview is shewn in plate 1, the course of the lines corres-ponding Avith those in the moveable part of the Embroidery-frame and the lid of the Work-box. An open writing-desk,a swing dressing-glass, and a music-stand…