Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 297
OUR SKETCHING CLUB. 279 arches — and for a good composition it is necessary that the eye be led about the picture from one prominent object to another in curved lines. You will find in the woodcut of Ehrenbreitstein, Figs. 25 and 28, that a line drawn from the top of the higher bridge tower,… … Fig. 29. a very beautiful springing curve. Another starts along the great rudder on the left, touches the back and head of the figure sitting on it, and swings up to the top of the tower again. Three more are combined of the curved forms of the three boats, and reach the tower top in the same way.…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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