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Clear chamber* for drawing in brass, signed "Maison de l'Ingénieur Chevalier Opticien, Place du Pont-Neuf 15 Paris", in its original box, circa 1830 19th century.
This clear room is in its own juice. The optics are missing.
A note: traces of oxidation on the brass, wear of time, look at the photos.
We put another clear camera for sale on this site.
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*A camera lucida (in Latin camera lucida) is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston. The camera lucida performs an optical superposition of the subject to be drawn and the surface where the drawing must be transferred. The artist uses this layering to place key points of the subject to be reproduced, or even its outline. The perspective is reproduced perfectly, without construction. The prism including a 45° surface, the image is inverted as with a mirror.
