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 68
ns, 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 about one-third the height of the picture; in some in-stances it will require to be rather lower, butseldom… … the horizon. The annexed engraving will showhow figures appear in perspective that arestanding on the same plane. It will be seenthat the head of the Bedouin Arab in the fore- E 66 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. ground, looking towards the point of sight, isa little higher than the horizontal line.…
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