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: 673 x 1004 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17046
Turner Bequest CXCV 76
Display caption
This diagram shows a perspective method for a cube proposed by Pietro Accolti, an Italian painter, architect for the Medici Family and author of Lo Inganno de gl'occhi Propettiva Practica 1625. Turner incorrectly dates Accolti's three-part treatise to 1643.
Gallery label, August 2004
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