Camera lucida
Object description:
Chambre Claire Universelle. Camera lucida with 12 lenses (2 x 1. 5 cm ) which can be height adjusted. Clip on the bottom to place it on a table or rigid support.
Instrument invented by W. H. Wollaston at the beginning of the nineteenth century that had the same function of a camera obscura, capturing a latent image of reality so as to copy it manually. It had a glass prism placed on a vertical axis that was attached to an illustration table. It made it possible to see the reflection of the image in the prism and at the same time on a piece of paper.
Production
Wollaston, W. H.(inventor);Darnay F. & Cie (company)
Place: France
Subject/theme:
camera lucidas, optics
Resource
Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Date Taken: 1996
Record
Rights Type: CC0
Source: Ajuntament de Girona
Identifier: MC-MP02119