Anamorphic picture

Made:: 1745-1752

Catoptric cylinder with sheath and cap and fourteen pictures

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Catoptric cylinder with sheath and cap and fourteen pictures
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Catoptric cylinder with sheath and cap and fourteen coloured pictures, unknown maker, before 1753. Once belonged to Stephen Demainbray.

Catoptric cylinder with sheath and cap and fourteen pictures. Anamorphic pictures were common in the eighteenth century. In this case a recognisable image is revealed by looking in the cylindrical mirror. Once belonged to Stephen Demainbray and used by him in his lectures on natural philosophy.Demainbray worked as superintendent at the King's observatory at Kew from 1768 and his collection of instruments and apparatus was absorbed into the King's own collection.

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Category:: King George III

Object Number:: 1927-1159

Materials:: boxwood, speculum metal, french walnut and oak

Measurements:: cylinder: height 265 mm; base: diameter 86 mm; cylinder: diameter 46 mm; two pictures: length 361 mm; width 280 mm; four pictures: length 298 mm; width 235 mm; eight pictures: length 285 mm; width 210 mm

type:: anamorphic picture and anamorphic mirror

copyright:: Unlinked Name

credit:: King's College, London

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One of fourteen coloured anamorphic pictures with cylindrical speculum catoptric mirror on stand

Catoptric cylinder with sheath and cap and fourteen coloured pictures, unknown maker, before 1753. Once belonged to Stephen Demainbray.

Anamorphic pictures were common in the eighteenth century. In this case a recognisable image is revealed by looking in the cylindrical mirror. This set once belonged to Stephen Demainbray and was used by him in his lectures on natural philosophy.Demainbray worked as superintendent at the King's observatory at Kew from 1768 and his collection of instruments and apparatus was absorbed into the King's own collection.