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Schaaf, <EM>Tracings of light: Sir John Herschel &amp; the camera lucida: drawings from the Graham Nash collection</EM>, (San Francisco, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1989). </P>","citation":"<P>Larry J. Schaaf, <EM>Tracings of light: Sir John Herschel &amp; the camera lucida: drawings from the Graham Nash collection</EM>, (San Francisco, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1989). </P>, pl. 7","date":1989,"id":5746,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/20816697"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2001,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 61 (2002): p. 101-142.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2001,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 61 (2002): p. 101-142., p. 108 (illus.)","date":2002,"id":3028,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774768"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1800-1850","dateend":1821,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Castle of Chillon, Near View, Dent du Midi and Upper End of Lake Geneva","titletype":"Published","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"2001-210","inscribed":"in brown ink, upper center: No 338\r\nin graphite, on verso upper right: Chillon, Villeneuve | Dent du Midi and | Upper end of Lake | of Geneva | Taken Sep. 15. 1821","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In 1807, decades before the announcement of photography’s invention in 1839, the chemist William Hyde Wollaston patented the camera lucida, an optical device that superimposes an image of the object(s) before it onto paper or canvas, allowing the outline of the image to be easily traced. Wollaston created the camera lucida to produce accurate geological renderings, but its ability to capture images with fidelity and relative ease proved useful to artists, draftspeople, and researchers in fields that required illustrations, such as botany. Herschel, the English polymath and early photographic inventor responsible for coining the term “photography,” used the camera lucida to make this detailed sketch during an 1821 journey through France, Switzerland, and northern Italy.\n","remarks":"PHO_18_WLA.pdf - Day 1 Installation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>Graham Nash (1942–); [Christie’s, New York, Photographs, Live auction 9754, \nlot 41, October 4, 2001]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2001.</p>","remarks":"Price realised USD 17,625, Estimate USD 20,000 – USD 30,000"}],"datebegin":1821,"sortnumber":"2001  210","published_date":"2026-02-11 11:03:27.007413","objectid":40504,"dimensions":"28.2 × 18.5 cm (11 1/8 × 7 5/16 in.)\r\nmat: 36.2 × 48.9 cm (14 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)","on_view":true}