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Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 47. Above the Eye-level are they not above the eye-level and do they not come downto the level of the eye ?Cast your eye downward, still sitting on the same chair. 121 Drawing for Beginners What do you see ? The outer edge of the carpet, the rug,
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Fig. 48. Below the Eye-level the wainscot, fender, the rail before the fireplace—all rise tothe level of your eye. You stand on a railway bridge and look at the long level122 Measuring and Perspective stretch of the lines and you note that the rails—wide as theyare below your feet—seem to narrow down to a point in thefar distance on the horizon. That point is called (what elsecould it be called ?) the Vanishing Point. And perspectivesays : All retiring lines have vanishing points. Have you not observed the long straight street and itsrows of lamp-posts or electric-light standards and noted thatthey diminish in size as they recede, though you know for afact that they are all uniform in size ? As the lamps lessen in height, so does the pavement narrow,and the houses on each side of the street diminish. For alllines that lie parallel disappear to the same point on the horizon—the vanishing point. The lines of the long esplanade by the sea, of the longbuildings, of the long passag

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