This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...the sky, or some other light object, behind them, and on the extremity of the lights, where they separate from the shadow, as in Ex. 5, Plate X. By placing the outline thus consistently with Nature, it will be seen that another very important result is the consequence, viz., That the Shadow is made to retire--a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...the sky, or some other light object, behind them, and on the extremity of the lights, where they separate from the shadow, as in Ex. 5, Plate X. By placing the outline thus consistently with Nature, it will be seen that another very important result is the consequence, viz., That the Shadow is made to retire--a property naturally belonging to it; in proof of which see Ex. 6, where the Shadow, from being M alone, lies on the paper, and appears to come forward, as in fact it does; and all that is seen is a connected set of horizontal lines without meaning: but in Ex. 7, where the Outline is attached to the Shadow, the surface of the paper, in consequence, appears to be the nearest, and the Shadow seems to sink below it, giving the idea of a space between and beyond the surrounding folds, into which it would seem possible to pass; and this retirement of the Shadow acts again upon the Lights, by making them appear proportionably nearer, more brilliant, and more attractive. Now, in the resemblance, we look on those parts which in Nature we look on, viz., the Lights. The roundness of the folds depends on the form and arrangement of the Outline, not more a matter of caprice, or accident, than its position. By examining Ex. 3, Plate X., it will be seen that the paper encompassed by the outline appears round, and very different from Ex. 2, of the same Plate; because each turn of the lines on the one side A of Ex. 3 corresponds and appears to be connected with, and to become the counterpart of, those on the side B, their connexion being carried on by the imagination, in such lines as at C. No effect of this sort takes place with Ex. 2, one of the most common methods employed; but, on the contrary, it appears perfectly flat, and this, when applied to the Shadow, as in...
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VG (smudges and light foxing prior to title page, light tanning and wear to covers as expected with age but interior is overall clean and tight) Brown cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering on front cover, 80 pp, 28 leaves of plates, profusely illustrated in bw illustrations, oversized book. "The object of the Author in undertaking the present Work, has been, to place before those who desire to study the Arts of Design, and especially those who practise, for the first time, the use of the Lead Pencil, such simple rules for their guidance, as will enable them to see how Nature may be represented by Art...This Work, it is hoped, will be u seful in furnishing the Student with assistance, to which he may continually refer for information in the absence of the Master, and teach him, by the simplest instrument, the Lead Pencil, in what manner, even in his earliest efforts, he may study Nature, and acquire Art with the certainty of eventual success."-Preface.