
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 590 × 724 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17145
Turner Bequest CXCV 174
Display caption
This diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective 1775. It provides a model of vision as a cone of rays travelling from various globes towards the eye. Turner used it in Lecture 2 to discuss Malton’s first theorem that ‘Objects appear to have proportion to each other, respectively, as the angle under which they are seen’.
Gallery label, August 2004
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