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Linear perspective explained

Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton), 1822-1898 · 1866 · Boston, Cyrus G. Cooke · 11 pictures

Linear perspective explained by William Newton Bartholomew, published in Boston in 1866 by Cyrus G. Cooke as a teaching manual for students of drawing. The pictures are plain geometric diagrams of lines, planes and vanishing points, with lettered points and labelled figures; a designer could take from them the underlying construction logic of one-point and two-point perspective, useful for building convincing spatial grids.

Perspective · Drawing

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