Perspective for Beginners: Adapted to Young Students and Amateurs in Architecture, Painting, EtcLockwood & Company, 1884 - 168 pages |
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appear arch ARCHITECTURE archway building circle cloth boards Construction Crown 8vo cube D. K. CLARK diagonal lines diagram direction draw a line draw a perpendicular Engineering finding the perspective finding the positions gable geometrical drawing gives the perspective gives the point ground line HANDBOOK HENRY LAW horizontal line Illustrated intersects the line JOSEPH GWILT line a b line D line drawn line F line intersects LUDGATE HILL meet the line mode numerous original object perpendicular line perspective drawing perspective positions perspective representation perspective width picture pier plane of delineation Plates point 13 point F point of distance point of sight points corresponding points of intersection Principles Prob problem put in perspective RALPH TATE revised right angle roof SAMUEL WOOD SCOTT BURN side spectator spective square straight lines student Tables tion vanishing point visual rays window Woodcuts
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