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 97
83 BUILDINGS. eases it will be best to avoid showing much of the nearer faces parallel with the surface of the draw- ing or picture, anb to throw them into half-tint, by placing the illuminating power on a line with them. (Plate 1, fig. 2.) The corners of buildings should never be repre- sented as… … broken character should be given. The appear- ance of the corners of dricks and stones having been broken away may be introduced with good effect. The same should be done with pavements ; the corners of the slabs should be represented as
Drawing · Perspective · Shades and shadows · Surfaces · Drapery in art · Projection
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