. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. 8;». Chap. IV. PERSPECTIVE. 1 and 828. is from a spot a little way out of Home, the tower of Ca?ci]ia Metella being seenin tlie distance. 2404(7. jig. 82fi. the masses are roughed in from the objects themselves ; and the principal mass nhcOldon the left side is first very carefully drawn by itself, being, as respects leading lines and tliickntsses, cor-reeled until the eye is satisfied of the truth of its general form. The eye is as high as K a
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. 8;». Chap. IV. PERSPECTIVE. 1 and 828. is from a spot a little way out of Home, the tower of Ca?ci]ia Metella being seenin tlie distance. 2404(7. jig. 82fi. the masses are roughed in from the objects themselves ; and the principal mass nhcOldon the left side is first very carefully drawn by itself, being, as respects leading lines and tliickntsses, cor-reeled until the eye is satisfied of the truth of its general form. The eye is as high as K ami K, whichtherefore show the height of the horizontal line, and are also, in fact, the vanishing points for the wall onthe right-hand side of the picture, »nd the house on the same side a little beyond it. Holding the (lortcrayon level, and taking on it with the thumb or forefinger the distance 01, we shall find that twice thatmeasure in 2 and 3 will give the junction of the wall with the pier ; and that a line continued hurizontallyfrom rf cuts the top of the plinth of the gate pier. The picture happens lo be divided into two equal i&
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