A new manual of perspective: containing remarks on the theory of the art, and its practical application in the procudtion of drawings ... Illustrated by numerous engravings (1849)
Whittock, Nathaniel · London, A. Hall & Co. · leaf 15
, he knows nothing ofpractical perspective. All that the reader of this Manual willrequire to know of the theory of perspectivemay be explained in a few words. We are told 12 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. by theorists that all objects in nature are seenthrough an atmospherical medium, which formsthe… … The student must suppose one side of the roomto be taken away, to allow the interior to beseen. The man seated at the enclosed desk islooking through a hole in a square piece of MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. 13 wood, towards a window in the opposite wall.At some distance from the window an obeliskis seen…
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