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Nature's laws and the making of pictures (1903)

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 26

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ere a common high-road which issubject to the laws of perspective. Now the width NATURES LAWS AND THE MAKING OF PICTURES 15 of the glitter under the sun depends on the posi- If by chance you see one part of the shining sea tion of the sun itself; it is wide when the sun is narrower than another, it… … If you want to give an appearance of strong according as we are looking up or down stream, current to a river, you can do so by making the This picture represents a river rushing out of a banks, and the objects floating on its surface, lake. I have made the banks and boat vanish in a vanish in…

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