Turner Bequest CXCV 23, 25–7, 29–30, 32–5, 37–48, 133
See Introduction, Royal Academy Perspective Lectures: Sketchbook, Diagrams and Related Material circa 1809–28. The diagrams in the present section are based on plates in Samuel Cunn’s Euclid’s Elements of Geometry (London 1759). The 1759 edition was the eighth, revised as Euclid’s Elements ... from the Latin translation of Commandine ... Revised ... by S. Cunn. ... Eighth edition ... To which is subjoined an appendix [by John Ham], etc. (sic).
The concordance indicates the plates adapted by Turner in order of their appearance in the book.
Source in Cunn’s Euclid | Tate | Turner Bequest |
Book 1, Prop. 1 and 4 | D16995 | CXCV 26 |
Book 1, Prop. 5, Book 4, Prop. 5 | D17004 | CXCV 34 |
Book 4, Prop 5 | D17003 | CXCV 33 |
Book 4, Prop. 6, 7, and 8 | D17000 | CXCV 30 |
Book 4, Prop. 10, 15 and 16 | D17002 | CXCV 32 |
Book 4, Prop. 11, 13, 14, and 15 | D16992 | CXCV 23 |
Book 5, Prop. 1 and 2 | D16997 | CXCV 27 |
Book 6, Prop. 33 | D17017 | CXCV 47 |
Book 6, Prop. 33 | D17005 | CXCV 35 |
Book 11, Prop. 1 and 3 | D17018 | CXCV 48 |
Book 12, Prop. 2 | D16994 | CXCV 25 |
Book 12, Prop. 13 and 14 | D17015 | CXCV 45 |
Book 12, Prop. 15 | D17016 | CXCV 46 |
Book 12, Prop. 16 | D17014 | CXCV 44 |
Book 12, Prop. 17 | D16999 | CXCV 29 |
Plane, Definitions | D17007 | CXCV 37 |
Plane, Prop. 1, 2, 3, and 4 | D17011 | CXCV 41 |
Plane, Prop. 5 and 6 | D17013 | CXCV 43 |
Plane, Prop. 7 | D17012 | CXCV 42 |
Plane, Prop. 10 | D17104 | CXCV 133 |
Spherical, Prop. 14 and 16 | D17009 | CXCV 39 |
Spherical, Prop. 22 | D17008 | CXCV 38 |
Spherical, Prop. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 | D17010 | CXCV 40 |
Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
How to cite
Andrea Fredericksen, ‘III. Diagrams after Samuel Cunn’s Euclid’s Elements of Geometry c.1817–28’, subset, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www