Camera lucida, Wollaston style, with fish-skin case

Made:: 1820-1850

Camera lucida

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Camera lucida
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Camera lucida, unsigned but Wollaston type with Ross lenses missing, in fishskin case, English, 1820-1850

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Category:: Optics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1981-268/16

Materials:: prism, glass, cell & rod & clamp, brass, box, pine, box, fishskin, black, covered and box, velvet, red, lined

type:: optical drawing aid - camera lucida

credit:: On loan from the Wellcome Trust

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