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. 1 Plate XXIX. is a fine specimen of tlie second or early English style of ec-
clesiastical buildings; this is a door-way from Salisbury Cathedral, one of the finest
structures in this style of architecture in the kingdom.
It is not my intention to give the names used by architects and builders for every
part of the architectural drawings introduced; all that I wish is to familiarize the eye
to the distinguishing features of the four styles already mentioned. I shall therefore
only state that the ornamental work over the door is called panelling, and that of
the circular ornaments on each side above the pointed arch, one is called a trefoiled cir-
cle, and the other a quatrefoiled circle.
No. 2. is a lancet window in the decorated English style.
No. 3. is a decorated pinnacle; the side ornaments are called crockets, and the ele-
gant ornament at the top a finial; the heads on each side of the arch are corbels; the
same ornament may be observed in No. 2.
No. 4. is the top of a decorated canopy, and is introduced to shew the crockets and
finial ornaments on a larger scale.