On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 481
d, as compared with thescene reflected; the various objects appearing to beremoved from a near position to a more distant one.This does not prevent the perspective principle whichgoverns the real subject, from prevailing in the re-flection ; as will at once become obvious by a glanceat any upright… … The object has been moved toward the observer; the distanceof the mirror being the same as in Fig. 18, REFLECTION IN PLANE MIRRORS, 431 In the first instance, an observer who faces the end of aroom, obtains, by simply turning his head to the rightor to the left, a front view of the objects which…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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