Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860
Title:
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 / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings, from real views, taken expressly for this work.
Alternate Title(s):
Oxford drawing book
Published / Created:
London : Published by Isaac Taylor Hinton, 4, Warwick Square, 1829.
Physical Description:
vi, 159, [3] p., cv [i.e. 107] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates are numbered: I-XXIV, XXIV*, XXV-LVII, LVII*, LVIII-CV.
Subject Terms:
Drawing -- Technique. | Perspective -- Study and teaching. | Drawing books -- Specimens. | Isaac Taylor Hinton -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- 1829. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1829.
Contributors:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860, lithographer. | Hinton, Isaac Taylor, 1799-1847, publisher.