Camera lucida, Wollaston type, with black fish-skin case
- Made:
- England
Wollaston type camera lucida, in black fishskin case, early 19th century
Details
- Category:
- Optics
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- 1981-268/23
- Materials:
- prism, glass, pillar & clamp, brass, housing, brass, box, softwood, box, fishskin, black, covered and box, velvet, red, lining
- Measurements:
-
overall: length 585 mm
overall, shortest: length 225 mm
box: length 247 mm
box: width 70 mm
box: height 24 mm
- credit:
- On loan from the Wellcome Trust