
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: 980 × 642 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17124
Turner Bequest CXCV 153
Display caption
This detailed diagram of Trajan's column was probably drawn from a plaster
copy. Turner used the image during
his first lecture to the Royal Academy
as Professor of Perspective in 1811.
Turner discussed the problems of representing the distortion of sculptural features when viewed from below. In
this example, the spiral bas-reliefs are
at the top of a column thirty metres
high. Turner's delivery of his lectures
was apparently poor, but people came
to see the illustrations.
Gallery label, August 2004
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