On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 481
, in drawinga three-quarter view of a figure placed before a mirror,to mark the situation of the point of sight, and to makesuch perspective arrangements as will show that thethree-quarter view of the head is owing to the sidewardposition of the observer, and not to its being partlj-turned round ;… … Thn figJire looks in a direclion trhic/i i.<s nearly pariillel tiil/i tin- mirrnr.hilt i.s seen hi/ the nhscrrer frnm a (tingonnl pii^ilinii. KEFI.KCTION IV Il, WT. NriRHOli^. IS.-i liini, till- rtHtffed imago would be tiini((i romid in thecontrary direction, showing partly the back ol the…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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