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Specimens of Fancy Turning
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George Webster
London, United Kingdom
Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden
Simon
London, United Kingdom
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Turin, Italy
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Providence, RI, United States
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Toronto, Canada
Mark W
Baltimore, MD, United States
Rich M
Mt Airy, MD, United States
Todd Pearson
San Francisco, CA, United States
David Houston
London, United Kingdom
Images from Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869), an early photography book featuring thirty tipped-in albumen silver prints of geometric designs created on “the hand or foot lathe”. Resembling something between spirograph drawings and textbook diagrams of orbiting electrons, the figures were created using geometric, oval, and eccentric chucks and an elliptical cutting frame. Attributed to “an amateur”, the book is credited by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the work of Edward J. Woolsey (1803–1872), an heir of the mercantile Woolsey family and partner in the New York Patent Sugar Refinery.
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