
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- 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
Display caption
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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