Colonial era sketcher, architect, builder and pastoralist, he established Melbourne's first private architectural practice, and in 1841 drew an enormous 'PANORAMIC Sketch of MELBOURNE Port Phillip...' that the Victorian government later commissioned a scene-painter to adorn the Melbourne Exhibition Building with.
The camera lucida and the solar enlarger are not the same thing. A Camera Lucida is camera lucida is a minute truncated, half-silvered prism that allows the artist to see the superimposition of the object they are drawing onto the drawing surface. A solar camera is an early form of photographic enlarger, a large, usually fixed, device using sunlight reflected through the negative, the enlarging lens and onto photo-sensitive emulsion on paper, to make positive prints. -
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James McArdle
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