The Eighteenth Figure.
The Ionick Base in Perspective.
By the Multitude and Variety of Figures in this Work, the Reader will be instructed in delineating things, however different in Size or Situation. In this Figure, the Line on which the two Columns rest, is both the Horizontal and the Ground-line; that on which the three Columns are plac’d, is so much higher than the Horizontal Line. And as, where the Ground-line is beneath the Horizontal, the Lines drawn to the Points of Sight and Distance tend upwards; so, where the same is above the Horizontal, the Lines to the Points of Sight and Distance tend downwards. If in the same Picture there are different Grounds, some higher, others lower than the Horizontal Line; yet are all those Ground-lines, and the Horizontal, parallel one to another; and therefore, by a Line cutting them all perpendicularly, you presently know in what proportion each Plan or Ground is higher or lower than the Horizontal. I would have you observe, That the Breadth of the middle Column is, by the Perspective, render’d less than that of the Side-Columns; and that this Difference is the greater, as the Point of Distance approaches nearer to the Point of Sight. What has been said of the Columns, is also to be understood of the Bases, and the Projections of all their Parts in Perspective: Nevertheless, if the Picture be view’d from its due Place, the Columns will have the same Effect, as if solid; and all appear equal one to the other.
Fig. xix.