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Perspective, or, The art of drawing what one sees : explained and adapted to the use of those sketching from nature (1872)

Collins, W. H. (William Henry) · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 77

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59 ESTIMATING POSITIONS. We will choose the centre of the picture to one side of this vanishing point, or, in other words, our Fig. 24, 0 … line of sight will be oblique to the main lines shown in this sketch. Having selected a centre of the picture o, a line must be drawn through it as before. It will be about two-thirds down the paper, and parallel with the bottom margin. A line co must be drawn through the centre of the horizontal…

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