Excerpt from Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Perspective: As Delivered at the Royal Institution
Complicated exam'ples'ha've been carefully avoided, as tending rather to confuse than assist the student in the general application of a rule, and those simple ones are the immediate result of the pre ceding principles. For this reason the projections of the bases and pedestals Of' columns, with theiramould'. Ings, are omitted, as the simple rules contained in these Lectures Will be fully sufficient for the Perspec tive represent'ation of the principal lines of which they are composed, and 'the rest must depend upon cor.
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