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 15 Terminology Perspective Dr Brook Taylor
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
diagrammatic
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
inscriptions
mathematics
named individuals
notes and diagrams
people
perspective
society
symbols and personifications
Taylor, Brook
<p>Diagram 15 forms part of Turner’s ongoing discussion in Lecture 2 devoted to the terminology of perspective. It shows terms used by Dr Brook Taylor, an English mathematician who wrote Linear Perspective: Or, a New Method of Representing justly all Manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in all Situations 1715.</p><p>Taylor was the first to coin the term ‘vanishing point’.</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 15: The Terminology of Perspective of Dr Brook Taylor
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<span class="text0">Diagram 15 forms part of Turner’s ongoing      discussion in Lecture 2 devoted to the terminology 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>. It shows      terms used by Dr Brook Taylor, an English mathematician who wrote </span><span class="text4">Linear Perspective: Or, a New Method of Representing justly      all Manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in all Situations </span><span class="text0">1715. </span>
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<span class="text0">Taylor was the first to coin the term ‘vanishing      point’. </span>
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diagrammatic education, science and learning emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities inscriptions mathematics named individuals notes and diagrams people perspective society symbols and personifications Taylor, Brook
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