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Camera lucida


 
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A masterpiece of portability and prism-based projection. Invented by William Hyde Wollaston, the camera lucida allowed the artist to see the subject and the drawing surface simultaneously, bridging the gap between direct observation and the hand-drawn line.

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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Introduction
2Camera lucida: Design and use
Examples
3The camera lucida
Practitioners
4Captain Basil Hall: Forty Etchings From Sketches Made With The Camera Lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 (1829)
5Henry Fox Talbot: Camera lucida drawings (1833)
6Henry Fox Talbot on using the Camera Lucida at Lake Como (1833)
7John Herschel: Camera lucida drawings

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