Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson; Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson [Ill.]; Dalziel, George [Ill.]: The Art Of Sketching From Nature (London, 1852)

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the waggon-wheels, &c,—tend towards the vanishing
line L L, while the horizontal lines of the house and wall
tend in the direction of the horizontal line, and, if pro-
duced to that limit, would converge and there be lost.
In this example, the lower extremity of the descent is

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evidently,— as, according to the principle laid down, it
ought to be,—higher on the plane of the paper than the
upper one.