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
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Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram 28 Perspective Method a Cube after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
diagrammatic
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
inscriptions
mathematics
named individuals
notes and diagrams
people
perspective
society
symbols and personifications
<p>Diagram 28 illustrates a method published by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, a French architect and engraver who wrote handbooks for artists on the Italian Renaissance style. Turner’s diagram is based on an illustration from Du Cerceau’s Leçons de Perspective Positive 1576.</p><p>Here the ‘distance point’ method of the previous diagram (shown to the left) is more explicit. Turner shows how to use a central point (E for Eye) and two distance points (V) to draw a cube with a face parallel to the picture plane.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique 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
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 28: Perspective Method for a Cube (after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau)
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="text14">Diagram 28 illustrates a method published</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau,      a French</span><span class="text0"> architect and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a> who wrote      handbooks for artists on the Italian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>Renaissance</span></a> style. Turner’s      diagram is </span><span class="text14">based on an illustration from Du      Cerceau’s</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text16">Leçons      de <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> Positive</span><span class="text0"> 1576. </span>
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<span class="text0">Here the ‘distance point’ method of the </span><span class="text15">previous diagram (shown to the left) is more</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">explicit. Turner shows how to      use a central</span><span class="text0"> point (E for Eye) and two      distance points (V) to draw a cube with a face parallel to the <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/picture-plane" title="Glossary definition for 'Picture plane'"><span>picture      plane</span></a>. </span>
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