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 15
ases as the sunis above the horizon, or, the sun has sunk below the hori-zon, Ssc Every perspective drawing has a line runningacross it, parallel to the bottom of the picture, to designatethe line of the horizon, which line is called the horizontalline. In drawing from nature, this line is at a… … tance from the base of the picture, which is called the groundline, depends entirely on the position in which the artistplaces himself to take his sketch. In the following example(Fig. 6), we will suppose the lines 1, 2, 3, 4, to form thej,. g boundary lines of the pic- ture. If the draftsmanis…
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