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Handbook of drawing (1880)

Walker, William, b. 1821 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 255

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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… … Fig. 178. 32G. When large objects, such as trees, buildings, &c.,are represented with their receding lines slanting upwards,thus indicating that they are below the eye, as in Fig. 179,the spectator has what is known as a birds-eye yiew. 327. Hitherto we haye concerned ourselyes only…

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