
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 667 x 985 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17055
Turner Bequest CXCV 85
Display caption
Like many of Turner's lecture diagrams, this is much simpler than its source - a treatise by Lorenzo Sirigatti (misspelt by Turner), which it fails to represent adequately. Turner misunderstood Sirigatti's work, which he criticised as unnecessarily complex: 'My position [is] that the complicated appearances which simple forms are often made to assume tend more to ingeniously perplex than to clear the way to a study.'
Gallery label, September 1992
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