Pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
V. Miscellaneous Preparatory Perspective Material
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
V. Miscellaneous Preparatory Perspective Material
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
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Perspective a Doric Entablature
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
classical
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
entablature
features
formal qualities
natural phenomena
periods and styles
perspective
shadow
<p>Turner carried out a painstaking geometrical construction to produce this perspective representation of an entablature. He set off measurements of parts of the entablature on a line running across the top of the sheet and used these to give a plan of the entablature in perspective. The completed perspective view was then built up below the plan.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique pen ink graphite watercolour
Perspective Study of a Doric Entablature
support: 306 × 488 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>Turner carried out a painstaking geometrical construction to produce this <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> <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/representational" title="Glossary definition for 'Representational'"><span>representation</span></a> of an entablature. He set off measurements of parts of the entablature on a line running across the top of the sheet and used these to give a plan of the entablature in perspective. The completed perspective view was then built up below the plan.</p>
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