Artists like Vermeer and others in the 17th, 18th, and early…

Artists like Vermeer and others in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries used an aid in drawing from nature which in Latin means, “dark room” and is called a ______.  It was an ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projected an image on a screen, the wall of a room, or the ground-glass wall of a box.