Turner first carefully ruled a framework of guidelines, based on a vanishing point just below the bust on the wall at the left. He then added details of the architecture. But this procedure is not a full method of : there is no indication that Turner used measurements or a plan of the building, nor that he calculated the recession to take full account of his viewing position.
Gallery label, August 2004
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