Whittock, Nathaniel: The Oxford Drawing Book, Or The Art Of Drawing, And The Theory And Practice Of Perspective: In A Series Of Letters Containing Progressive Information On Sketching, Drawing, And Colouring Landscape Scenery, Animals, And The Human Figure: With A New Method Of Practical Perspective: Detailed In A Novel, Easy, And Perspicuous Style, For The Use Of Teachers, Or For Self-Instruction. Embellished With Upwards Of One Hundred And Fifty Lithographic Drawings, From Real Views, Taken Expressly For This Work (Oxford , London, 1825)

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No. 7. is a pollard willow; the trunk is produced as in Plate XIX. No. 4. shews
the trunk and a branch of a beech tree. As the trunk of this tree is more smooth and
round than most others, the shade must be more circular. No. 5, is part of an elm
in light and shade, with the foliage strongly marked. This is the finish of the parts of
the elm, which are seen in No. 19. and 29. of Plate XIX. No, 6. shews the trunk and
branch of a poplar: and No. 8. an oak stump.
When you have acquired sufficient freedom of hand to produce the parts of trees
presented in this plate, we may venture on a perfect tree.
Plate XXIV. is a drawing of a celebrated elm upon Headington Hill, near Oxford.
This tree was planted by a person named Joseph Pullen, and is called Joe Pullen’s
tree. Few persons visit Oxford without walking up Headington Hill, to view the
surrounding country beneath the shade of this fine elm. Very few verbal directions
can be added to the instruction for drawing trees, given in my remarks on Plate XIX.
and Plate XXIII. The same care must be used in making a light outline first, and
strengthening it afterwards; the whole of the foliage should be put in the first shade,
letting the lines run in a horizontal direction; then make the outline of the most