
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 675 × 1002 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17064
Turner Bequest CXCV 94
Display caption
Thomas Malton Junior was an architectural draughtsman and son of the author of A Compleat Treatise on Perspective
1775. He introduced Turner to many basic principles of perspective when Turner joined his studio as a young apprentice in the late 1780s.
The diagram provides terminology related to the ‘measure point’ method, a technique favoured by draughtsmen for rendering buildings in perspective.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
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