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- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 486 x 687 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17034
Turner Bequest CXCV 64
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Turner was fascinated by the problems posed by using linear perspective for rendering curved lines or forms. For his section on curvilinear perspective, he produced a series of diagrams based on illustrations from Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective 1775. He used these drawings to discuss the representation of such curved shapes as the globe, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
Gallery label, September 2004
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