Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
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Hand Drawing

Title:

3-Dimensional Figure

Date:

c. mid-1850s

Material:

Engraving on paper

Dimensions:

6½ × 6⅞ in. (165 × 73mm)

Location:

Paris, France

An early stereoview like those produced by Louis-Jules Duboscq to demonstrate his version of the Brewster viewer. In 1851 Duboscq released a set of 40 white-on-black views of simple hand-drawn geometries that became known as the Parisian Set. These are a later copy—views from the actual Parisian Set were blue on the back and numbered on the front. Most of the geometries in the Parisian set were such that left and right views could be created simply by flipping the drawing horizontally (Schimmelman 2013)(Pellerin 2024).

Images swapped for cross-eyed viewing
Images swapped for cross-eyed viewing
Drawings from Sir Charles Wheatstone's original paper presented to the Royal Society in 1838 (Wheatstone 1838, 373)
References
⌃  Back to citationPellerin, Denis. 2024. Early Stereo Daguerreotypes and Lithographs Published by Jules Duboscq. The Stereoscopy Blog. June 21, 2024.
⌃  Back to citationSchimmelman, Janice G., Brewster, Duboscq & the Early Printed Stereoview, 1851-1853. Rochester, Michigan: The Collodion Press, 2013.
⌃  Back to citationWheatstone, Sir Charles. 1838. Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. — Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 128: 370–394.