The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective, containing rules and principles for delineation on planes ... : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing (1800)
Malton, James, d. 1803, Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731 · London : Printed by V. Griffiths ... and published for the author by Carpenter and Co. ... · leaf 80
i, Plate 13), its bafe, it was viewedby an eye elevated two inches perpendicularly over the ftation S, and Juppofing the■plane of delineation tofiand vertically over the like GL. Firfl, I would advife the Student to place a cube before him in the pofitionftated, and recommend that a fketch of its… … direct the hand ; as here, the eye being elevated fomewhat above the cube, thetop of it will, of confcquence, be feen, and, in the pofition fiated, will appearnearly of the form of the delineation G CD E, and whatever may be the heightof the near angle of the cube in the drawing, as A G, the more…
Perspective
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