ARTIST: Basil Hall
PUBLISHER: Published Edinburgh.
MEDIUM: Etching,
DATE: 1829.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 4 1/2 x 8 1/2" (112 x 215 mm).
DESCRIPTION: From Captain Hall's "Forty Etchings from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America, in 1827 and 1828". A "camera lucida" is an optical instrument designed to create an exact image of an external object or landscape on a place surface so that an outline can be traced from it. The result is that Hall's scrarce etchings offer an extermely accurate glimpse of towns just developing, native dress and landscape features. Accompanied by a page of descriptive text.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition.
REFERENCE: Howes H-40.
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