Camera obscura and camera lucida on display at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Wiltshire
Category
Photographs
Date
1975
Materials
Slide film, Card
Measurements
50 x 50 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522847
Summary
A Ektachrome colour slide depicting part of a display in the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock, Wiltshire. There are a camera obscura and a camera lucida, with an interpretation board explaining the origin of Talbot's early idea for capturing images on paper. The image was taken in the year the museum opened. The transparency is held in a white card Ektachrome branded slide mount, printed in blue: "Ektachrome transparency; processed by Kodak". Stamped on the mount in red is the processing date: Oct 75 and the number 19.