
Not on display
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 672 × 998 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17049
Turner Bequest CXCV 79
Display caption
Diagram 35 shows how to draw a simple rectangle or double cube at an oblique angle to the picture plane. Turner attributes the method to Samuel Wale, an English draughtsman, book illustrator and painter, who was the Royal Academy’s first Professor of Perspective, from 1768 to 1786.
Gallery label, August 2004
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