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
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram 36 Basic Perspective Construction a House
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
classical
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
house
periods and styles
perspective
residential
<p>Here Turner develops the double cube of Diagram 35 (shown to the left) into a house with basic architectural features, such as a door, cornice and pitched roof. His intention was to show how the cube – which he describes as the ‘cornerstone of our fabric’ – is ‘convertible into a building by subdivisions and additions’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 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
Lecture Diagram 36: Basic Perspective Construction of a House
support: 677 × 1005 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">Here Turner develops the double cube of </span><span class="text14">Diagram 35 (shown to the left) into a house</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">with basic architectural      features, such as a</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text16">door,      cornice and pitched roof. His intention</span><span class="text0"> was      to show how the cube – which he describes as the ‘cornerstone      of our fabric’ – is ‘convertible into a building by      subdivisions and additions’.  </span>
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