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 156
), the parallelogram BA B c D represents the top of acommon table, upon which overthe square E stands a cube ; * onthe line c D (which represents theedge of the table), take any pointas the position of the spectator,which we have here fixed at f,and across the table parallel to theedge c I), draw a… … from 4 draw a line to the vanishing point e, and from 6 a line parallelto the ground line to meet it; the point of intersection will give thepoint 5, and complete the figure of the octagon in perspective. The sameresult might be arrived at in various ways, but the principle would be the same. * We…
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