M0000238: Brass camera lucida

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Camera Lucida. Brass in wooden box. Hoffmann maker.

Image of a brass camera lucida made by Hofmann in the eighteenth century. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number 60979) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.