Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram: Perspective Representation of a Triangle

c.1810–28

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
II. Various Perspective Diagrams
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 487 × 601 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17020
Turner Bequest CXCV 50

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This unfinished diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas Malton’s
A Compleat Treatise on Perspective 1775, which demonstrated ‘how to find the perspective representation of a triangle, having the original line given, in any plane, whose intersection and vanishing line is also given, and the place of the eye’.


Gallery label, August 2004

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