FRANZÖSISCHE CAMERA OBSCURA

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Condition

Manufacture Year

1820

Product number

AI_1_20913

For tent use, brass, internal adjustable glass prism, height 26cm, a very large portable type, commonly used by artists in the 19th century, would be fitted to the top of a special tent, the prism would direct refracted light inside onto a paper surface therefore allowing an artist to trace the outside scene