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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iligs little esteemed by connoisseurs: at last, pursued by his creditors, and abandoned
by his former friends, he died in great poverty in the year 1642, aged 67.
I shall now conclude my letters on figure-drawing exclusively, and only recur to it
again as the figures in the different landscapes that will come under our notice in the
next part of this work may demand our attention. It will be proper to remark, that
if you draw with red or black chalk crayons, you should either draw on thick paste-
board or else have your paper strained on canvass, in a stretching frame. I shall take
a future opportunity of shewing you the use of coloured paper, and heightening the
light with white chalk, and merely mention it here lest you should suppose it had
escaped my observation. It has been my object throughout, to lead you on step by
step in the foundations of the art, which I hope has been accomplished ; my next
series of letters will contain full instruction on the more ornamental and pleasing
branch, which would have been useless in the earlier lessons.