A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of painting: with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil
A drawing manual by David Cox, published in 1845 in Britain, meant for students learning to paint and draw in pencil. Its plates show ruined abbeys, castles and churches in soft tinted washes and monochrome pencil, with a clear sense of distance and foreground. A designer could take from them the layering of ruins, hedgerows and open skies, and the way a few figures and animals set scale in a landscape.
