Camera lucida

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

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.

Object/Work type:

camera lucidas

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

35 x 8 x 2,5 cm

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