Graphite and watercolour on paper
II. Various Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
II. Various Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
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 Perspective Representation a Triangle
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
non-representational
perspective
<p>This unfinished diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas Malton’s</p><p>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’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
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
2 February 2013 – 6 May 2013
2013-05-06
2 February 2013 – 6 May 2013
2013-05-06
2013-02-02
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2013-02-02
Rosa Barba: The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
Loan-out
24 May 2017 – 23 November 2017
2017-11-23
24 May 2017 – 23 November 2017
2017-11-23
2017-05-24
Science Museum (London, UK)
2017-05-24
Mathematics Gallery
Loan-out
Lecture Diagram: Perspective Representation of a Triangle
support: 487 × 601 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">This unfinished diagram is based on an illustration      from Thomas Malton’s  </span>
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<span class="text15">A Compleat Treatise on <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> </span><span class="text0">1775, which demonstrated ‘how to find the perspective      representation of a triangle, </span><span class="text6">having the      original line given, in any <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/plane" title="Glossary definition for 'Plane'"><span>plane</span></a>,</span><span class="text0"> whose      intersection and vanishing line is also given, and the place of the      eye’. </span>
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abstraction diagrammatic emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric non-representational perspective
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