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)

44 PICTORIAL EFFECT.

or situations in a picture, where the principal
subject, or these points of light or dark should
never be placed, and on the other hand, there
are certain other parts or situations peculiarly
adapted to that purpose. The former may
be termed feeble, and the later forte points or
situations.

The feeble points are those which are at an
equal distance from any two of the boundary lines
or corners of the drawing.

The forte points are those which are at unequal
distances from all the boundary lines and corners.

Any point that appears to be at an equal
distance from one corner or boundary line,
whether top, bottom, or side, and from any
other boundary line, or corner, is feeble, or an
improper situation for the subject or points of
fFect. The most feeble are those situations















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