Turner used this ground plan of a classical stoa or portico to show the vantage point, indicated by the word ‘eye’ at the bottom, used for the next two diagrams (shown to the right). A comparison of the allowed him to illustrate how some free-standing columns (circles) and attached columns (squares) are obscured in a side elevation of the building.
Gallery label, September 2004
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