A supplement to "The amateur's perspective" (1829)
Davenport, Richard, author · London : Printed for the author · leaf 17
5 On the Field of Vision. apt illustration of this in the species of painting- called Panorama, in which the illusion is in general much more easily elfected than in a flat picture) ; and it is evident that a distant plane surface is much more easily rendered, in the imagination, conformable to a… … e A. B. right line. 1.1. arc of circle with long radius. 2. 2. arc of circle with short radius. The dotted lines the radii of the circles. A. B. then may be considered as a horizontal section of the plane of the picture ; 1.1. the large panorama ; 2. 2. the smaller panorama : and it is evi- dent…
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