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The illustrated London drawing book ... (1853)

Burn, Robert Scott · London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. · leaf 65

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rays intersect theplane of the picture are the true perspective positions of those points asthey appear from the station E. When the perspective places of any twopoints are found, a right line connecting those points will be the perspec-tive representation of the corresponding line in the object.… … % 11. bered; and the lines connecting those points with each other will be therepresentation of the figure on the table, transferred in perspective to thesaid plane, as seen from E. The plane of the picture, then, is an imaginary transparent plane sup-posed to exist somewhere between the spectator…

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