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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Diagram Indicating Perspective, Light or Reflections c.1808-11

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
A Diagram Indicating Perspective, Light or Reflections circa 1808–11
D07992
Turner Bequest CXIV 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Maurice Davies has listed the studies here and on folios 20 verso and the recto (D07990, D07991) as ‘Perspective or reflective constructions’1 in relation to the preparations for Turner’s perspective lectures, delivered at the Royal Academy from January 1811 onwards (see the Introduction to the sketchbook). The three diagrams grow progressively more complex; here, in the last of the three, the forms developed from those on the recto appear to approach incoherence.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

1
Davies 1994, p.290.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Diagram Indicating Perspective, Light or Reflections c.1808–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-diagram-indicating-perspective-light-or-reflections-r1134768, accessed 28 March 2024.