Camera lucida, Wollaston style, with black fish-skin case
- Made:
- 1830-1850
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Camera lucida of Wollaston type, with Ross lenses added to prism cell, black fishskin case, English, 1830-1850
Details
- 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
- Measurements:
-
outer rod: length 158 mm
cell and mounting: length 38 mm
box: length 214 mm
box: width 70 mm
box: height 22 mm
- credit:
- On loan from the Wellcome Trust
