Nathaniel Whittock styles himself lithographic engraver and printer to the University of Oxford. In its early years lithography was often referred to as ‘engraving on stone’ although it is a planographic process. Whittock removed his business to 14, Paternoster Row, London in 1828, where he traded as Whittock & Goodman.

While in Oxford, Whittock made many facsimiles of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, as shown here. The principal interest of this card, however, is the phrase ‘Stones lent, and instruction given in lithographic drawing’, evidence of the keen amateur artistic interest in the lithographic process which enabled artists to draw direct onto the stone (see also part 4).