Perspective, a series of elementary lectures (1899)
Cone, Ada · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 14
e appearance of objects as influenced by position and distance from the eye. Facts which are local and ascertained by actual meas¬ urement, make when delineated what are called geo¬ metric or working drawings. Such are used by the artisan for patterns. Perspective drawings give the appearance from… … instead, like Fig. 2. By this we know that there is a science of appearances ; and the fact that every object which occupies space, be it a house or a flower, an avenue of trees, or a row of preserves on a shelf, in¬ volves the aid of this science to represent makes knowl¬ edge of it imperative to…
Perspective · Drawing
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