Fig. 104. Toledo.
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The Picture on a Height
If we are looking at a scene from a height, that is from a terrace, or a window, or a cliff, then the near foreground, unless it be the terrace, window-sill, &c., would not come into the picture, and we could not see the near figures at A, and the nearest to come into view would be those at B, so that a view from a window, &c., would be as it were without a foreground. Note that the figures at B would be (according to this sketch) 30 feet from the picture plane and about 18 feet below the base line.
Fig. 105.