Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram 66: Interior of a Prison (after Giovanni Battista Piranesi)

c.1810

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Medium
Graphite and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 443 × 595 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17091
Turner Bequest CXCV 121

Catalogue entry

Prepared by Turner for his lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, Diagram 66 is one of three views of a prison interior based on an etching from Prima Parte de Architettura e Prospettiva (1743, pl.2) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). See note to Diagram 65 (Tate D17090; Turner Bequest CXCV 120) for their likely connection with illustrations of the production of shadows and with a lecture manuscript, and Tate D17123, D17124, D17072; Turner Bequest CXCV 152, 153, 102) for other
references to Piranesi among the lecture diagrams.
Technical notes:
The diagram has been cut down and the number pasted to the top left corner.
Verso:
Currently laid down.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

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