A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 113
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Chap. CXIII.—Precepts in Painting.
Perspective is to Painting what the bridle is to a horse, and the rudder to a ship.
The size of a figure should denote the distance at which it is situated.
If a figure be seen of the natural size, remember that it denotes its being near to the eye.