Illustration from German Lutheran book Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christentum (Six Tracts on True Christianity), 1753
1753
Book illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49052 [Further details available]
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Illustration from Light: Its Properties and Effects, (London: Religious Tract Society, 1840)
1840
Illustration, hand-coloured
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49053 [Further details available]
2 of 30
Artist using a box camera obscura
1875
Book illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31668 [Further details available]
3 of 30
Early 19th century
Colour image
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31670
4 of 30
Miragioscope, folding French cardboard camera obscura
Early 19th century
Colour image
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49054 [Further details available]
5 of 30
Improved Camera Obscura, For the Instruction of Youth in the Art of Drawing & Coloring
1819-1820
Flyer
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49055 [Further details available]
6 of 30
French artist's Camera Obscura by Bourgeois Ainé
Mid 19th century
Colour image
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49056 [Further details available]
7 of 30
1911 (ca)
Folder cover
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31680 [Further details available]
8 of 30
A drawing tent in the landscape with a lens on the top
1825 (ca)
Book illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31676 [Further details available]
9 of 30
The Dark Chamber
1870 (published)
Book illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49057 [Further details available]
10 of 30
Trade card for a camera obscura builder
1870 (ca)
Trade card
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49058
11 of 30
The Camera Obscura, Central Park, New York City
[American Scenery]
1870s (ca)
Stereocard
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31686
12 of 30
Inside the Central Park camera obscura
1877
Magazine illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49059 [Further details available]
13 of 30
A camera obscura ticket and two advertising cards
n.d.
Tickets and cards
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49060 [Further details available]
14 of 30
Detail of Coney Island camera obscura from a "Popular Series" "American Views" stereo card
n.d.
Stereocard, detail
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49061
15 of 30
Cover of The Illustrated Police News, August 14, 1880
1880, 14 August (published)
Magazine cover
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49062 [Further details available]
16 of 30
The camera obscura, Melville Garden at Downer Landing, Massachusetts
1880s
Stereocard, detail
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49063
17 of 30
A camera obscura
1870s
Watercolour painting
3 x 5 1/4 ins
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49064 [Further details available]
18 of 30
View of New Brighton Beach, Liverpool, England, shows a camera obscura on wheels
Late 19th century
Albumen print
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49065
19 of 30
View of New Brighton Beach, Liverpool, England, shows a camera obscura on wheels
Late 19th century
Albumen print, detail
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49066
20 of 30
4 3/4"X6" velvet covered trinket box with a photograph of the Jetty at Margate in England on the cover
Early 20th century
Trinket box
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49067
21 of 30
"At the Beach" Cartoon from August 30, 1890 Puck magazine
1890, 30 August (published)
Cartoon
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49068 [Further details available]
22 of 30
The 1896 Cliff House, San Francisco with a camera obscura in the southwest tower
1896
Photograph, mounted
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49069
23 of 30
The 1896 Cliff House, San Francisco with a camera obscura in the southwest tower
1896
Photograph, mounted, detail
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49070
24 of 30
A camera obscura building at an 1896 Berlin trade fair
1896
Photograph, card-mounted
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49075
25 of 30
The interior of a camera obscura tent used in bomber practice
1918, 15 September
Gelatin silver print
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/31682
26 of 30
Hamilton Field, California, September 16, 1935 showing camera obscura equipment for bomber practice
1935, 16 September
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49071
27 of 30
Family by the Giant Camera, Cliff House, San Francisco
1964
Gelatin silver print, Snapshot
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49072
28 of 30
10" china plate, "Picturesque San Francisco" by Old English Staffordshire Ware showing Cliff House with the camera obscura by its side
n.d.
Plate
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/49074
29 of 30
The Magic Mirror of Life camera obscura tent - Custom made from a design by Jack and Beverly Wilgus in 2000
2000
Colour photograph
Provided by the artist - Jack Wilgus
LL/49073
30 of 30
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