Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram: An Object Lying Flat on the Ground, or Plane Perpendicular to the Picture

c.1816–28

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: IV. Diagrams after John Joshua Kirby’s Dr Brook Taylor’s Method of Perspective
Medium: Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 480 x 597 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D16986
Turner Bequest CXCV 17

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