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Camera lucida works

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CategoryCamera lucida works
SourceLibrary of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I

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Drawings (and paintings or other works made from them) produced by tracing the image of an object or scene as it appears when projected through the prism of a camera lucida. The device, which aids accuracy and enlargement or reduction, was not widely used until the early 1800s; replaced the camera obscura.

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