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Claude glass.
Claude mirror
Great Britain,
ca. [1900?]
1 Claude glass :
dark-tinted mirror, in beech plywood box ;
10 x 12 x 3 cm
A Claude glass (or Claude Lorrain glass) is a small dark-tinted mirror, slightly convex in shape, usually mounted in a velvet-lined carrying case. "Its effect [is] to convey a relatively wide-angled view on to a small-scale surface ... Its tonal effect is to reduce glare at the top end of the scale ... and thus to allow the subtlety of the middle tones to emerge" (Kemp). "It has the effect of abstracting the subject reflected in it from its surroundings, reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality, similar in appearance to the work of Claude Lorrain, hence its name" (Harvey). The device was popular with 17th and 18th century artists, travelers, and amateurs of landscape painting.
Arnaud Maillet (in The Claude glass, 2004) argues that the device is more aptly termed a Claude mirror, to differentiate it from the tinted translucent glass filters (of the same period) that might more rightly be called Claude glasses.
The interior of the present Claude glass is embedded in the inside of a box made of beech plywood, with sliding lid.
Autographed on the back, in a 20th-century hand: Beryl Maas.
Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Kemp, M. Science of art,
p. 199
Harvey, J.C. "Claude glass." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online.
Maillet, A. Claude glass.
Artists' tools.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008321
Painting
Technique.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096675
Landscape painting
Technique.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106627
Reflection (Optics)
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112207
Claude glasses.
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Claude mirrors.
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Chron.
1900.
Maas, Beryl.