Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lecture Diagram: Ray of Light Passing through a Small Aperture

c.1817–28

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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: 487 × 689 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D16977
Turner Bequest CXCV 8

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