J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lecture Diagram: Reflections and Refractions in a Transparent Globe Half-Filled with Water c.1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lecture Diagram: Reflections and Refractions in a Transparent Globe Half-Filled with Water’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Lecture Diagram: Reflections and Refractions in a Transparent Globe Half-Filled with Water circa 1810
D40024
Turner Bequest CXCV 177b
Pencil and oil on white wove paper, 220 x 262 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner produced this drawing of a transparent globe, along with others of globes of different materials (Tate D17147, D17148, D40025–D40026; Turner Bequest CXCV 176, 177a, c, d), for a lecture on ‘reflexies’ (reflections) and their relationship to light and shade, to be given as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. See note to D17148 for related lecture texts and sketches and the fact that this diagram and three others were once on a single larger sheet. For Turner’s discussion of reflecting spheres in Lecture 5, and its possible influence on his friend John Soane, see notes to D17147.
Verso:
Currently laid down

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Lecture Diagram: Reflections and Refractions in a Transparent Globe Half-Filled with Water c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lecture-diagram-reflections-and-refractions-in-a-transparent-r1136763, accessed 18 April 2024.