Howard, Frank: The sketcher's manual: or, the whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master (London, 1841)

ARRANGEMENT. 31

Again, in representing a view down a street:
the point of sight regulating the perspective
should not be placed in the centre of the picture;
but on one side. And, as in the previous example,
if figures or animals are introduced to give effect,
they should not be placed at equal distances
from the two sides j but nearer one than the
other, and the most prominent on the opposite
side to the point of sight.

And the light should not be represented as
shining directly down the street, either coming
out of the picture, or as if the sun were at the
back of the spectator; whereby the two rows
of buildings will be equally light: but it should
be situated on one side, so as to throw one part
of the street into shadow, while the other is in
the light (Plate XVI).