In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 1000 × 672 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17140
Turner Bequest CXCV 169
Display caption
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 drawings 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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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lecture Diagram 8/2: Elevation of a Stoa or Portico (after James Stuart)
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