Precision lens

By Robert Elwall Robert Elwall 2006-11-28T00:00:00

Source: fratelli alinari / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

During the 19th century the invention of photography reinforced the consciousness of the history of art that the architect George Gilbert Scott saw as the defining characteristic of the age.

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