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 67
64 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. line is near the top of the picture. An hori-zontal line this height is only allowable in whatis called a birds-eye view. Many of ourreaders have doubtless seen in old books, viewsof gentlemens seats, drawn exactly in thismanner, before the Art of Perspective waspractised.… … had of getting space for a foreground. In thisthe figures are seen walking over each other :the house, gardens, and trees, appear all out ofdrawing. From this examination of the appearance ofthe natural horizon, the horizontal line in a MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. 65 drawing may generally be placed…
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