Camera lucida, Wollaston style, with fish-skin case
- Made:
- 1820-1850
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Camera lucida, unsigned but Wollaston type with Ross lenses missing, in fishskin case, English, 1820-1850
Details
- 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
- Measurements:
-
outer rod: length 141 mm
cell and mounting: length 43 mm
box: length 220 mm
box: width 63 mm
box: height 20 mm
- credit:
- On loan from the Wellcome Trust