P3D Stereoscopic drawing

[Dale Walsh <dwalsh1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: P3D Florentine painter Jacopo Chimenti
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> In digest 3358 Dave Walsh asked
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> > As an unrelated question, has anyone any sources of information on the
> >16th century Florentine painter Jacopo Chimenti
> >who did stereoscopic drawings?
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> Brewster made much of the Chimenti drawings in order to try to prove that
> Wheatstone had not invented/discovered stereo drawing but only his own
> Scottish photographic society agreed with their president. I have seen the
> pair in question reproduced in a stereo monograph (contradiction in terms?)
> produced by the UK stereoscopic society  . The effect is slight and
> probably accidental it seems to be the result of trying to make an exact
> free  hand copy of one from the other. Which is of course impossible and
> the the slight differences are responsible for the effect , some of it is
> actualy pseudoscopic.

Interesting but where did you see the pair reproduced?  Do you have a reference I
could look up?

> While on the subject of early stereo D'Almeida had
> projected ananglyph stereo before Ducos Du Huron in about the 1830's and
> Rollman was even earlier but I think that may have just been drawings. Du
> Hurons inovation was to use two complimentary colours sanwich the pairs
> together and use a single lantern. D'Almeida used primary colours and two
> lanterns.

Thanks for the information but again I would love to have a reference.

Dale Walsh




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