Camera lucida

Description

Camera lucida comprising stand, plate glass, base and images contained in a wooden box, designed by Sir John Robison, Edinburgh, 1841

Museum reference

T.2003.142

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Camera lucida, Box

Production information

Robison, John, Sir, 1778 - 1843, Designer

Date

1841

Materials

Wood

Associations

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 30, 1841.

Magazine of Science and School Arts, 3, 1842.

Hockney, David. Secret Konwledge, 1997.