Graphite and watercolour on paper
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Lecture Diagram 26 Interior Great Room at Somerset House London
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
art gallery
cornice
England
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hall
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public and municipal
Royal Academy of Arts
Somerset House
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UK London
window
<p>During his lectures Turner perhaps pointed at the upper part of the room as he explained: 'The upper line of cornice to all those seated in [the] centre appears to dip each way, and the underneath part or lines appear to approach each other as they recede from the eye.' In spite of this, the rules of perspective do not depict such lines as converging if the building is parallel to the picture plane, but as strictly horizontal on the picture surface, as Turner shows here.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
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Lecture Diagram 26: Interior of the Great Room at Somerset House, London
support: 669 × 1000 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
<p>During his lectures Turner perhaps pointed at the upper part of the room as he explained: 'The upper line of cornice to all those seated in [the] centre appears to dip each way, and the underneath part or lines appear to approach each other as they recede from the eye.' In spite of this, the rules of <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> do not depict such lines as converging if the building is 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>, but as strictly horizontal on the picture surface, as Turner shows here.</p>
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