Ladies' manual of art, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art : embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel, crayon, drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 27
1? SKETCHING FROM NATURE. THE EFFECTS OF THE DRAWING IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS OF THE HORIZONTAL LINE. horizontal right line has, with respect to the plane A of the picture, one of three positions. It is either par- allel to it, oblique to it, or perpendicular to it. We will sit with the back against… … position. The two remaining walls being at right angles with that opposite, are evidently perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and all horizontal right lines on those two walls, are also perpendicular to that plane, and will appear to tend towards a point immediately opposite to the eye. H.…
Decorative arts · Art · Artists' materials · Taxidermy
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