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A handbook of pictorial art (1875)

Tyrwhitt, R. St. John (Richard St. John), 1827-1895, Macdonald, A. (Alexander), 1839-1921 · Oxford, The Clarendon press · leaf 375

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urfaces which are to represent the top and right sideof the block. Any one with a good eye will do this rightlyin a few trials—keeping in mind that he must not look uponthe surface of the top and side as receding space, but as all inthe same plane as the near face. Sometimes he may help himself by… … Fig. U- proportion between them. Or he may look at the modeland imagine a perpendicular dropped from a farther corneron the near edge, and observe in what proportion the latteris divided by it, and reverse this operation in his drawing.As a rule, the tendency is at first to make receding…

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