The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

(From the Times.)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has
been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of further
improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact of
being furnished in the short space of five seconds with a
more correct miniature likeness than the most accom-
plished artist could paint on ivory, 'after days of laborious
study, coupled With the fineness of the weather, drew
together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly--
technic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding
the short period of time occupied in the operation, the room
was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting
their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magical
process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the
object desired, being on the highest story of the institution.
From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about
a quarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained,
and it is so ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the sun.
In a portion of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated
seat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is to be,
taken sits, with his head reclined backwards. In this posi-
tion the sitter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite
direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate
to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so fora few
seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a
likeness is presented to him. The likenesses which we saw
were, admirable, and closely true to nature, beauties and de-
formities being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are
ashamed of their personal appearance had better keep from
the influence of photography.
(From the Morning Herald.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented,
and now for the first time brought before the public. By the
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken. in the
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds! We
say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects
is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of
that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring,
the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only
be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course,
may result from an assumed or unnatural position.
Although the exhibition has been only of a private character,
and of some two or three days, we understand that it has
1-een 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 J;urnal.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday
at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
paratus at the Polytechnic I Rstitution, 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.
(Prom 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 herish 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.—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 thing
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—TiIe appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
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 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, 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.)
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-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
must precious gift that can be given to those who love him
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest Fuld°
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil
paintings as large as life.

TO SHIPBUILDERS, TIMBER FitCHANTS,
WHEELWRIGHTS, AND OT RS.
-lb PAYNE and SON haie the honour, o announce they
.1.1• are instructed to offer for SAL% BY PUBLIC
AUCTION, the largest fall of TIMBE that has been ;sub-
mitted for some years, in the count of Leicester, now
growing on the Estates of Lady NOEL V RON, in the Lord-
ships of Kirkby Mallory, Peckleton, EltnsthOrpe, Market
Bosworth, and Lindley, in the county of Leicester. The
First Day's Sale will take place
On TUESDAY, the 23d instant,

at the Wentworth Arms Inn, Kirkby Mallory, and will con-
sist of the Timber at Kirkby, Peckleton, and Newbold
Verdon, which comprises

728 OAK, 243 ASH, 97 ELM, 50 POPLARS, 17 AL-
DER, and 5 BEECH.

The Second Day's Sale will be at the Bowling Green Inn,
Earl Stilton,
On WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant,
and consist of the TIMBER at Market Bosworth, Elms-
thorpe, and Lindley. •
Dinner on the Table each day at One o'clock, and the
Sale to commence immediately after.

B. P. and SON beg to say most of the above is of large
dimensions and of very superior quality, and confidently
recommend it.

Kirkby is one mile from Earl Shilton, four from Hinckley,
and nine from Leicester. The roads are excellent and the
getting away easy. _ .

Catalogues will be ready fourteen days prior to the Sale,
and may be had at the places of Sale ; George Inn, Hinckley ;
and at the Auctioneers' Offices, Leicester.
For a view apply to the respective Tenants.

LUNDY FOOTE SNUFF.
'THE LOVERS of a GOOD PINCH of SNUFF are
1 respectfully informed that a FRESH CANISTER is
OPENED every SATURDAY, at
STAFFORD'S

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

CIGAR AND SNUFF WAREHOUSE,
71. CHURCH-STREET, opposite thelthenmum,
(SECOND DOOR FROM PARKER-ST EET.)