File:The importance of knowing perspective - Satire on False Perspective, by William Hogarth (1753).jpg
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"The importance of knowing perspective" |
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Satire on "False Perspective": Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece. |
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1753 date QS:P571,+1753-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Erroneous overlap: The sign is obscured by objects that should be behind it.
Collapse of distance: The woman leans out the window to the light the pipe of the man on the hill as though they are facing each other. In reality they should be ½ a mile distant.
The man on the hill is as tall as the tree next to him and ½ as tall as the church!
The swan is at least the same height as the men in the boat
Both the top and bottom of the barrel are visible.
The man in the boat fires his rifle at the swan. While a straight line along the barrel will meet with the swan behind the ship, it is obvious to the viewer that he's firing his gun into the bridge abutment!
The perspective of the siding of the building arbitrarily changes about ½ way down.
The water slopes away as precipitately as the hill does.
Sheep are bigger in the back and get smaller the closer they are.
Invalid crossing!
This crow is like Godzilla. Too big
The floor perspective is too exagerated
The oblique (lower) beam of the bracket is fixed on a nearby house, but the horizontal (upper) beam is fixed on a house far behind. Both beams apparently go nearly perpendicular to the line of sight.
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