Graphite, watercolour and tracing on paper
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
Bath and Northeast Somerset
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram 59 Pulteney Bridge Bath in Perspective after Thomas Malton Junior
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Bath and Northeast Somerset
Bath, Pulteney Bridge
bridge
bridges and viaducts
building - non-specific
classical
column
dome
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
features
formal qualities
Malton, Thomas
named individuals
people
periods and styles
perspective
places
street
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
<p>For his final example of applied linear perspective, Turner presented a view of Pulteney Bridge in Bath, built by Robert Adam in the 1770s. He said this building was ‘not selected for the beauty of its architecture, but from its possessing the principles of the square and circle, and having columns and entablature in projecting colonnades’. He explained that once students understood the basic rules of perspective they could place ‘any building in perspective whatever as to form, size, proportion, order or arrangement’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour tracing
31 May 2004 – 8 November 2004
2004-11-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-05-31
Vanishing Point: The Perspective Drawings of J.M.W Turner
Collection based display
24 September 2018 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
24 September 2018 – 31 December 2018
2018-12-31
2018-09-24
Higgins Art Gallery and Museum (Bedford, UK)
16 February 2019 – 1 April 2019
2019-04-01
2019-02-16
Blenheim Palace (Woodstock, UK)
15 April 2019 – 15 July 2019
2019-07-15
2019-04-15
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (Worcester, UK)
28 September 2019 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
2019-09-28
Banbury Museum (Banbury, UK)
2018-09-24
Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective
Loan-out
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
2023-10-28
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, Germany)
2023-10-28
Turner at Lenbachhaus Munich
Loan-out
Lecture Diagram 59: Pulteney Bridge, Bath, in Perspective (after Thomas Malton Junior)
support: 672 × 999 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text0">For his final example of applied linear <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a>,      Turner presented a view of Pulteney Bridge in Bath, built by Robert Adam in      the 1770s. He said this building was ‘not selected for the beauty of      its architecture, but from its possessing the principles of the square and      circle, and having columns and entablature in projecting colonnades’.      He explained that once students understood the basic rules of perspective      they could place ‘any </span><span class="text14">building in      perspective whatever as to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/form" title="Glossary definition for 'Form'"><span>form</span></a>,</span><span class="text0"> size,      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proportion" title="Glossary definition for 'Proportion'"><span>proportion</span></a>, order or arrangement’. </span>
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