The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

(From the Morning Herald.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.--Ve were-present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately pate -
and now for the first time brought before the public.
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken.
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds
say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the object
is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript c
that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring
the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can onl
be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course
may result front an assumed or unnatural position
Alt-hough the exhibition has been only of a private character
and of some two or three days, we understand that it ha
seen visited by all the parties possessing the privilege.
Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.

(From the Court Journal.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday
at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic
likenesses are taken, and with the greatest
period varying from five to twenty seconds
lighhted with the exhibition.
(From the Morning Post.)
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of
giving these "reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting
for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he
anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the
best memento of a dear friend or relative.
(From the Courier.)
" Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)

We were d

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.-We took an opportunity
on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to
witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken
by the photographic process. The room was crowded with
nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber-
deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in
the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment
at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle.
men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thin
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.)
PROTOGRAPRIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of'
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engra,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain tr
of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations,
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a
wonderful and extraordinary r,
exhibition. Those who in most
po
traiture are fond of being "flattered," will certainly no
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses • bu
on the other hand, they who want the real thin
spe
g,an'd7
a presumeguiea withn them
grmteoabt willingness
majority,ethei
n the
will unquestionably
production of a mintare portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, siste
and brothers
Separate rooms are r
appropriated
mayt
to ladies" e"a sawneda r to
gentlemen, and a female attem
waits upon the former to assist in arrangingcte.
(From the Naval and Military the dress s
to produce the most desirable pictorial e
PROTOGRAPRIC PORTRAITS.--For Gazette)
annaeti.m e
doubted whether Photography could ever be brouf
operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, a
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective Hi
the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture
progrees. Ingenuity, perseverance, and repeated experime
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; a
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from
sittting of from five to twenty seconds; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.
(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It iS
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate looking
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likeness
is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo..
memorythesi t
sitter
when
fhreonrndteha
the tedium
dlitumis
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
most precious gift that can be given to those who love him
while living,wahnidchwnilal e!
a discovery,
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his
likeness, (for this is aceomplishcd in the sixth part of a mi-
nute)—but
onlyrs saveshis
selves the surest guide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or I 1
it affords to artists them
U O.
paintings as large as life.
scaouneus may be beep, and Orders received, at Tor
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