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 110
* 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. … of the height of about two panes of glass ; we perceive thata large projecting lamp from the corner of the opposite shop,appears much about the size of the bowl of a wine-glasssituated on the window ledge; that the full height of a e 2 76 PERSPECTIVE FOR STUDENTS. figure under the lamp, from its…
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