How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 247
ierto copy a picture than to drawthe real object is because thelines to be copied are all laidout on the flat surface of thepicture ; but to draw the objectwe must find out where to tracethe lines for ourselves. For instance, suppose we areto draw a flower-pot and plant.If we have the picture… … fJ^JU How to Draw. 231 Therefore we must learn to see things as they appear^ not asthey really are. This may seem strange to you, because oneis apt to think that a thing must appear as it is ; but let us lookinto the matter. We will take a square box (Fig. 140). Now, we know thatall the sides are…
