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Imitative art;, or, The means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects, as governed by aerial and linear perspective: : being a manual of details, for the amateur sketcher and the man of business, with a chapter on finish. (1840)

Howard, Frank, 1805-1866, Darton & Clark, publisher, J. Green and Co., printer · London : Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill. · leaf 52

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38 LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. And so with all other forms, however regular or irregular they may be. But when the objects are globular or horizontally cylindrical, as the side of a column, cone, or ball. … the extreme outline receives a delicate reflected light, and the darkest part of the half-tint is not at the extreme boundary. So with the shaded side ; from the highest light it graduates through half-tints to the deepest shadow, beyond which is perceived a reflection by which the globular or…

Drawing · Perspective · Shades and shadows · Surfaces · Drapery in art · Projection

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