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

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 80

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l drawing of any sortshould have a sector drawn in the corner, showingthe number of degrees of arc taken in by the object. As an instance of this, I give two studiesof the same boat. In the first I was fairly near—7 yards from the stem, which is therefore large.The bow, you will notice, looks much… … tion, and the bow swells out fuller, whilst the sternis much wider. The angle subtended by each ismarked in the corners of the drawings. You canquite understand that the first one will not lookcorrect unless introduced large in a picture, whilstthe second could be used much smaller. If Iwished to…

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