Inside Out Library · Explore

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 92

An illustration from 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, leaf 92
78 PROJECTION AND RELIEF. of the bank, proportionate to the degree of slope that the bank is desired to appear. If it slope much the angle will be very small; if it slope little the angle will be very great. The height or length of the shadows in all these instances is determined by the line… … partly sloped, convex or concave as the base of a column, or the trunk of a tree, the cast shadow must follow all the varieties of shape ; the

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

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from 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.

More like this