The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

(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 accuracy, in a
period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de-
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.)
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-

Been, 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-
pen were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution.
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.}

PHOTOGRAPHIC `PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
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Operations,
n
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
of fact, for nature in tThibse,raesis suinoetihi esrubsfi
d
tmoankeeisn ‘thaeolmikiesntaeksse.a's' might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
traiture are fond of being "flattered," will certainly not
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses; but,
on the other hand, they who want the real thing, and we
presume ,them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend
a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia-
ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arranging the dress so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it was
doubted whether Photography could ever be brought to
operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness,
the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its
progrees. Ingenuity,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty
a; d
perseverance, and repeated experiments,
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken,. Iront a
sittting of from five to twenty seconds ;
according to the intensity of light.
Ewer.)
(From Bell's Weekly the time varying
is the sitter. It is
bodily and personally the individual
in thew most accurate looking
EXTRAORDINARY PACT.—MINIATURE E PICTURES.-1I iS
as much so,
moved
from the surface of the
is the image as if it were rep.'
lt is an everlasting memo-
glass but withas htheissedeisffehriemncesel,fthatthe Photographic likeness
rial of the man and renat the moment pe
u 64ven to those who love him it is taken—and therefore the
aru be
most precious gift that
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is
t only saves the sitter from the tedium
a discovery, not
position for many at hour • 1 111 11S
of being fixed in
the 's accomplished in the sixth
part of a un-
likeness (for this !
hiacohr s to artists themselves the surest guide
likenesses, whether in miniature, or in ott
nute)-I;nt le -
for copying other
as
lfe.
paintinirs as large be
specimens may seen, and Orders received, at Mr. LA-
. sticr's iticrosizeav OF ARTS, 100, 80ld-street.