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 166
the picture, drawing the plan as it standsbefore us, or whether we make one line serve the purpose ofboth, by drawing the plan reversed. Let A represent a plansimilar to that in Fig. 27, only drawn as it stands before us,B representing the plane of delineation, from which thepoints are to be… … line B serving for the plan a and station point c, both as groundline of the picture and base of the plane of delineation ; thevisual rays b c and d c, it will be seen, intersect the line B inthe same points as the visual rays b cand d c. In comparing figure 27 withPlate II. of the First Part, it…
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