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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any person as familiar in fronting outlines as you ought to be from your previous
practice.
I have sent you in Plate LXI. six drawings of the eye in various directions; the
first, you will observe, is the eye drawn directly in front; this is divided into three
parts : the centre one is the size of the sight; make outlines of this eye till you can
do it correctly, and then put it in light and shade. Proceed in the same manner with
the other four, and do not turn to another plate till you can draw any of the eyes
before you with tolerable correctness, without looking at the copy; the eye in profile
is half the width of the eye in front.
Plate LIX. contains drawings of the nose and ears at large No. 1. is the ear, the
width of which is equal to half its height; and as we have before seen, its height is about
one quarter of the head. You must proceed as in the last plate to make outlines coiv
rectly, before you attempt a finished drawing. The nose, No. 3. is at its base, seen in
front, about the width of the eye; the other figures are too easy to require comment.
Plate LXIII. contains a drawing of a mouth and part of the nose, from an antique