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 111
to us;in fact, this cut must in every part clearly demonstratethe fact of objects appearing smaller as their distance is in-creased. The following very simple experiment will perfectly satisfythe most incredulous as to the fact of objects of an equal sizeappearing less and less as they recede from… … and on it draw four perpendicular lines at equal distancesone from the other, say each line eighteen inches in height,with an interval of one foot between each, similar to thelines c d, E f, g h, and J k. Drive a nail into the topand bottom of each of the lines G H and J k, and to eachnail attach a…
Perspective
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