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A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools (1837)

Burnet, John, 1784-1868 · London : James Carpenter · leaf 55

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of light and shade,and our associations taken thence are so strong, as we are easily imposed upon by a just imitationof the light and shade belonging to each shape and figure in their several situations with respectto the quarter from which the illumination proceeds. It is from the associations… … In drawings of machinery this is often of the utmost importance, asinformation is the only point aimed at. We likewise often find shadow Fig. 29.

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