Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 33
20 HINTS TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS. deepest part of the shadow being cast upon the extromedejDth of the concavity. Upon irregular surfaces made up of projecting andreceding planes, convexities and hollows, the form ofthe shadow partakes of the varied surfaces (see fig. 15). It must be observed that the… … Fig. 15. simply, and thus become expressive of ground or othersurroundings of the objects. In cast shadows of towers,pinnacles, chimney-stacks, &c., upon the inclined sur-faces of roofs, this rule becomes of much value, as afford-ing evidence of projection and depth ; though of courseregard…
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