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Fig 18b William Henry Hunt, Chatsworth, The Library, mid 1820s

This is another good example of the type of work which would have been difficult to paint without the benefit of a viewing device, such as a camera obscura or, more likely, a camera lucidia, the name given to a variation invented by Cornelius Varley, the brother of John Varley, to whom Hunt had been apprenticed.

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