Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram 58: Perspective Construction of Pulteney Bridge, Bath (after Thomas Malton Junior)

c.1810

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Banbury Museum (Banbury, UK): Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective

Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 674 x 1006 mm
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Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17083
Turner Bequest CXCV 113

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Diagram 58 illustrates the ‘measure point’ method for drawing a perspective representation of a building. Turner first marked off the measurements of Pulteney Bridge, in Bath, on the horizontal lines across the top of the sheet. Then he constructed a plan in perspective in the upper part of the picture. Below this he completed the finished outline of the building.

Gallery label, September 2004

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