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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LETTER XI.

We have now nothing but pleasure before us, as every drawing on which we shall
have to remark will be interesting, and the execution easy, since you have mastered
the difficulties of the early stages of the art.
We commence our third part with a drawing of the Tower of London, Plate LXXI.
and I cannot give you a better description of it than that contained in Hughson’s
Walks through London, which I therefore insert. “ The Tower of London stands
on an eminence called Tower Hill, and though said to be of very ancient date, cannot
be traced with any certainty beyond the time of William the Conqueror, who built
what is now called the White Tower, and enlarged the whole, which at present co-
vers twelve superficial acres; its ramparts are surrounded by a deep and wide ditch,
proceeding north on each side of the fortress, nearly in a parallel line, and meeting
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