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

(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, trnsting
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.)

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"Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)

, PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.-- Yv,,, e 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 exeeution
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be anythitnlgi:
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.)
sbimutilaa plain matter
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance
or
ofr operations,touch
and
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion,
of fact, for nature in this, as in other
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty
otrhais is a most Lawrence
t -ao i
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke
at once with delight and despair. Altogether
raeudfoenxdtroaoftbdeininagry,e, xfilalitbteitroieofdnil
taking
will certainly not
Those who in por-
patronise the photographic method
v‘l.nt due r er f ual
on the other hand, they who want tae
presume them to be the majority, will real thing, and we
a guinea with great willingness in th unquestionably spend
minia-
ture portrait which their fathers a de production of a
and brothers may " swear to." n mothers, wives, sisters,
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen,Separate rooms are also
waits upon the former to assist and a female attendant
in arranging the dress so as
to produce the most desk l a e pictorial effect.
(From Na _ val and Military Gazette.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC the
YORTRAITS.—POM 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 effective likeness,
in
the slightest motion an unerring and
in evitably destroying the pictureits
progrees. Ingenuity, perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty , • and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
sittting of from five to twenty seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.
(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDIN AKY PACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.-1t 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 it' it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo-
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, and will cherish his memory when dead. I
t is
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tediu
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour .m
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth -' tot his
part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves
for copying other likenesses, whether ' b the surest guide
paintings as large as life. m miniature, or in oil
Specimens may be seen, and
Orders received, at Mr. LA..
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