Camera lucida, Wollaston style, with black fish-skin case

Made:: 1830-1850

Camera lucida of Wollaston type

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Camera lucida of Wollaston type
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Camera lucida of Wollaston type, with Ross lenses added to prism cell, black fishskin case, English, 1830-1850

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Category:: Optics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1981-268/17

Materials:: prism & lens, glass, cell & rod & clamp, brass, box, pine, box, fishskin, black, covered and box, velvet, sea green, lining

type:: optical drawing aid - camera lucida

credit:: On loan from the Wellcome Trust

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