Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
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Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram 11 Spheres at Different Distances Eye after Thomas Malton Senior
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
Malton, Thomas
named individuals
non-representational
people
perspective
visual illusion
<p>This diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective 1775. It provides a model of vision as a cone of rays travelling from various globes towards the eye. Turner used it in Lecture 2 to discuss Malton’s first theorem that ‘Objects appear to have proportion to each other, respectively, as the angle under which they are seen’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique pen ink watercolour
31 May 2004 – 8 November 2004
2004-11-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-05-31
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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
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 11: Spheres at Different Distances from the Eye (after Thomas Malton Senior)
support: 590 × 724 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 diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas      Malton’s </span><span class="text14">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. It provides a model of vision      as a cone of rays travelling from various globes towards the eye. Turner      used it in Lecture 2 to discuss </span><span class="text15">Malton’s      first theorem that ‘Objects appear</span><span class="text0"> to      have <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> to each other, respectively, as the angle under which they      are seen’. </span>
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