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Practical perspective, exemplified on landscapes

Noble, Thomas · 1809 · London : Printed for, published and sold by, Edward Orme : Sold also by Mr. Taylor, Rowe and Waller, and to be had of every book and printseller in the United Kingdom · 13 pictures

Practical perspective, exemplified on landscapes is a 1809 London instruction book on perspective drawing by Thomas Noble, published by Edward Orme for students and practising landscape draughtsmen. Its plates are engraved outlines of garden terraces, classical buildings, steps and water, each overlaid with construction lines that show how receding forms are plotted to a vanishing point. A designer could borrow the plotted grid method for laying out a scene or the clean hatched engraving of architectural ground and foliage.

Perspective · Landscape drawing -- Technique

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