In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 672 x 999 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17043
Turner Bequest CXCV 73
Display caption
Guidobaldo del Monte, or ‘Ubaldus’, was an Italian gentleman who devoted his life to scientific scholarship. Diagram 29 illustrates a method from his Perspectivae Libri Sex 1600, a six-volume treatise written in Latin on the mathematics of perspectival projection.
Guidobaldo’s fundamental contribution was to show how to find the vanishing point for any given line. He also showed how to project any given shape onto a plane according to the relative positions of viewer, plane and object.
Gallery label, September 2004
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