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 109
how, when sitting in a room, could we account for seeingthe houses on the opposite side of the street ? If the houses,from their distance, did not appear reduced in magnitude, itwould be impossible to see even one of them through socomparatively confined a space as that occupied by a window.To… … * When placed horizontally at exactly the height of the eye, it appearsas a straight line, See Fig. 13, Parti, p. 8. PERSPECTIVE FOR STUDENTS. 75 side of the street, from its greater distance from the spec-tator than the window through which it is seen, appears only Fig. 3.
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