| Reference number | PT/73/3/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawing, periscopic camera obscura by [William Hyde Wollaston] |
| Date | 1812 |
| Description | Plate 9 containing five figures sketching basic optical details of a conventional and periscopic camera obscura, periscopic prism of a camera lucida, and a periscopic microscope. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Ivy Mill 1807'.
Subject: Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope' by William Hyde Wollaston.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 June 1812. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 231x185mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0253 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0021 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/6/19 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8579 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8298 | Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist | 1766 - 1828 |