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 34
We will now proceed to draw the perspectiveappearance of this square. First draw the baseline; upon which draw that end of the squarethat is nearest the eye, d c. (We will suppose MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. 31 the angular point f found as directed in the lastdiagram.) Next draw the horizontal line,… … sight.) Then place one leg of the compasses onthe point of sight, and the other on the point ofstation; draw a curved line from the stationpoint to the horizontal line, and where the 32 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. curved line intersects, or touches, the horizontalline, will be the true point of distance…
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