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 64
natural horizontal line, andupon it, directly before his eyes, the point ofsight. It will follow, that in copying nature wemust observe her laws. If, in commencing amarine view, we make the horizon too low, wemust suppose it to be taken by a person sittingon the sand. The same effect is observable… … 62 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. desert and the sky seem to meet together.In this case the plane of the picture would betoo confined to allow him to see objects dis-tinctly. In the next sketch (Fig. 43) the man is stand-ing up, looking towards the sea. This is the Fig. 43.
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