Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 22
If you look down on the same scene from apier, so that your eye is 10 feet above the sand,the subject will look like this. The vanishing-linestill slopes across the horizon, just where the wavesand water-marks seem to vanish, but the heads ofthe men are now 4 feet below it. Of course the men in the… … Looking obliquely out to sea, the vanishing-lineof the sloping sand runs across rather less sharply.Here your eye is 4 feet above the sand ; so thevanishing-line cuts through just below the shouldersof the fishermen. The waves and water-marks stillvanish in the lighthouse, which is, however, a…
Drawing · Perspective
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