An optical device and precedent to the camera, which was used as an aid for drawing and sketching. Developed in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston, it featured a prism with four faces set on a stand above a sheet of paper, which superimposed the reflection of the subject in front of the artist onto the drawing surface. From the Latin, meaning “light chamber.”
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