
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 677 × 1015 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17029
Turner Bequest CXCV 59
Display caption
Diagram 15 forms part of Turner’s ongoing discussion in Lecture 2 devoted to the terminology of perspective. It shows terms used by Dr Brook Taylor, an English mathematician who wrote Linear Perspective: Or, a New Method of Representing justly all Manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in all Situations 1715.
Taylor was the first to coin the term ‘vanishing point’.
Gallery label, August 2004
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