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 197
extremely bad effect, no per-spective representation ever being satisfactory to the eyebut such as the original objects would present in one singleview, without shifting the direction in which we look atthem. Whatever the angle of vision determined on,—sayi, forinstance, an angle of fifty… … PERSPECTIVE FOR STUDENTS. 163 drawn for the base of the plane of delineation, the distancefrom the spectator to be regulated according to the size ofthe representation. The knowledge of how to place the relative positions oforiginal objects, plane of delineation, and station of thespectator, from a…
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