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Handbook of drawing (1880)

Walker, William, b. 1821 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 254

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ythe retiring lines bounding them alltend towards a point opposite theeye — the vanishing point, thoselines which are above it slantingdownwards, those which are belowit slanting upwards. The same rulewill govern the lines of the sofa,fender, and the two distant chairs,but not the door and nearest… … 226 On Artistic Pei^spective. back, so as to see the distant end of the room withouthaying too wide a yisual angle; unless, indeed, the apart-ment be a yery long one. The readiest way to represent an apartment in parallelpprspectiye is to begin by drawing the further end of theroom (its true…

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