A rudimentary and practical treatise on perspective for beginners : simplified for the use of juvenile students and amateurs in architecture, painting, etc., also adapted for schools and private instructors (1866)
Pyne, George · London : Virtue Brothers & Co. · leaf 105
rge, and the vanishingpoint for finding the proper inclination of the parallel linesso far out of the picture, that it would be difficult to find ameans of drawing lines with sufficient accuracy to a vanish-ing point, if one were fixed ; as, for instance, some high objecttowering above everything… … G * From our limited space, we are compelled to give this diagram on avery small scale, but its peculiar advantage is when applied on a largescale. It was pointed out by a deceased artist of great celebrity, to theauthor, when making a very large outline of one of the towers of RochesterCastle. He…
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