The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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Suppofe the perfon mentioned mould bend
his head very much downwards, looking ear-
neftly at the ground, for inftancej we now
perceive diftinc~Uy the comparative advantage
gained by the fourth divifion over the third,
i. e. that it preferves its juft dimenfions, while
the third leflens; by the third over the fecond;
and by the fecond over the firft; which fcarce
appears at all. Thefe variations take place
according to the degree in which the head is
lowered j and the fame kind of progrefs in-
verted takes place in the head looking up-
wards. (Vide Principles, Plate V.) In this
afpe£t we obferve thofe lines which originally
were horizontal, and in the foregoing example
were the inferior part of a circle, are now be-
come the fuperior ; and the upper divifions of
the head recede or diminifh to the apparent
(i. e. comparative) enlargement of the lower;
and this effect is produced in proportion to
the degree of elevation in the head, the parts
following each other, thus: the upper, or
fourth divifion of the head is confiderably
leffened; the forehead not quite fo much; the
nofe fomewhat lefs; and the chin fcarce at
all.

We remark, that in the head looking down*
wards, the prominence of certain parts con-
ceals fomewhat of the parts beneath them.

Thus