print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- Y,4.184
- Title
- Object: The Camera Obscura
- Description
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Illustration of the principles of the camera obscura, with a dark room to left, a wall at centre and a man seated outdoor to right, looking through a pinhole in the wall; illustration to "The Universal Magazine" (J. Hinton, London).
Etching
- Production date
- 1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography ... and Other Arts and Sciences; which May Render it Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry, Merchants, Farmers, and Tradesmen. To which Occasionally Will be Added, an Impartial Account of Books in Several Languages, and of the State of Learning in Europe; Also of the Stage, New Opera's, Plays, and Oratorio's
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- Described in the inventory Burney's collection (CD.4.18) under K.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,4.184
