A supplement to "The amateur's perspective" (1829)
Davenport, Richard, author · London : Printed for the author · leaf 26
igher above the water than the eye of the spectator is.) Then the extreme line of the sea will cut the sides of the ship ; as in fig. 1. No. I. and the gun-whale of the ship, as well as the masts, will intercept a part of the sky. Let the spectator now rise to a higher station. He sees the platform… … * Let him again ascend, and he will see the surface of the sea clear over the mast of the ship ; and his horizon-line no longer cuts any part of it, but leaves a space, which must be represented in the picture between the utmost height
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