Graphite 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 35 Perspective Method a Rectangular Object after Samuel Wale
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
inscriptions
named individuals
notes and diagrams
people
perspective
symbols and personifications
Wale, Samuel
<p>Diagram 35 shows how to draw a simple rectangle or double cube at an oblique angle to the picture plane. Turner attributes the method to Samuel Wale, an English draughtsman, book illustrator and painter, who was the Royal Academy’s first Professor of Perspective, from 1768 to 1786.</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
24 September 2018 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
24 September 2018 – 31 December 2018
2018-12-31
2018-09-24
Higgins Art Gallery and Museum (Bedford, UK)
16 February 2019 – 1 April 2019
2019-04-01
2019-02-16
Blenheim Palace (Woodstock, UK)
15 April 2019 – 15 July 2019
2019-07-15
2019-04-15
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (Worcester, UK)
28 September 2019 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
2019-09-28
Banbury Museum (Banbury, UK)
2018-09-24
Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective
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 35: Perspective Method for a Rectangular Object (after Samuel Wale)
support: 672 × 998 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">Diagram 35 shows how to draw a simple rectangle or      double cube at an oblique </span><span class="text14">angle 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>. Turner attributes</span><span class="text0"> the method to Samuel      Wale, an English </span><span class="text15">draughtsman, book illustrator      and painter,</span><span class="text0"> who was the Royal Academy’s      first </span><span class="text16">Professor 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>, from 1768 to      1786. </span>
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