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 20
h the door at the point A; andthis point fixes the height of the horizontal line, and is calledthe point of sight.* But we must here proceed with thesecond figure, Plate I. The student must first draw the four outer lines of the * The point exactly opposite the eye of the spectator is always… … PERSPECTIVE FOR STUDENTS. 11 door, b c D K, as in the geometrical drawing, and thenthrough the point A (the height of his eye from the ground)draw a line across his picture parallel to the ground line, orbottom line of the drawing; this is the horizontal line. Inlooking at the geometrical drawing…
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