In the Lord of the Rings, to make Elijah Wood (Frodo) look smaller, they made him stand/sit in a way where he is farther away, but you can't tell he's farther away because it is an illusion.
transpiring in England around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this is a time when individuals began working in factories, when hand tools gave way to powered machines, and when people began moving into or closer to urban areas.