In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 603 × 510 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17134
Turner Bequest CXCV 163
Display caption
Turner began Lecture 1 with a discussion of how basic geometry informed Old Master paintings. Here he shows how the composition of Raphael's Transfiguration is made up of intersecting triangles.
Gallery label, September 2004
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