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 94
80 PROJECTION AND RELIEF. distance within the edge, and expanding into an oval form at the top, within whieh will be found a reflection. The principal light, as has been elsewhere explained, will fall upon the horizontal base, compared with which the vertieal faee in which the niche exists will be… … the prominent canopy will deepen the oval form of the upper part of the shadow, and the lower edge of it will be serrated by the shadows cast by the depending points. If, instead of making the upper part of the shadow oval, the returning line be made straight
Drawing · Perspective · Shades and shadows · Surfaces · Drapery in art · Projection
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