Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram 21: Representation of a Globe in Perspective (after Thomas Malton Senior)

c.1810

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 486 x 687 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17034
Turner Bequest CXCV 64

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Turner was fascinated by the problems posed by using linear perspective for rendering curved lines or forms. For his section on curvilinear perspective, he produced a series of diagrams based on illustrations from Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective 1775. He used these drawings to discuss the representation of such curved shapes as the globe, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.

Gallery label, September 2004

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