J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes on Anatomy, Geometry and the Structure of the Eye, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes on Anatomy, Geometry and the Structure of the Eye, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Notes on Anatomy, Geometry and the Structure of the Eye, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808
D06775
Turner Bequest CII 28a
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 115 x 76 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These notes (not transcribed by Finberg) continue a long passage begun on folio 29 of the sketchbook (D06776), for which see catalogue entry for a full transcription and comment.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Notes on Anatomy, Geometry and the Structure of the Eye, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-notes-on-anatomy-geometry-and-the-structure-of-the-eye-for-r1130868, accessed 20 September 2024.