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Camera obscura works

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CategoryCamera obscura 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 aperture of a camera obscura, which is used to aid accuracy. This device, available by the 1500s, may be a portable box with lens and mirror, or a room; supplanted by the camera lucida.

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