A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters .. (1817)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Craig, W. M. (William Marshall), ca. 1765-ca. 1834 · London, E. Orme · leaf 292
ces fronting, with their distances of ten, five, and threefeet and a half. No. 2. Is the same in profile, with the measure or a isual rays which limit thedistances, Avhether great or small; being the same position as No. 3. Where they are all three in one. Now, my original question, with respect to… … jf. <&• -La.ir^/7? mt> Of Lights and Shades. 215 the large one? Now behold No. 3. where they are all three in one, accordingto perspective; and let the question be, which ought to be most finished, the fore-most or the hindmost? You will certainly answer, that it shews itself, that the…
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