The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

IS NOW OPEN

The Corporation of Liverpool having gra. sd the site of
the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMES'S ' LA, a neat and
elegant Building has been erected the!. .n, in which the
PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, al- discovery of which
is ranked among the greatest scientific achievements of the
present age, is now in DAILY OPERATION.
THE PRICE FOR. EACH PORTRAIT,INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.
JOHN RELPH, Manager.
Specimens may be seen, and Orders received. at Mr. LA-
4SET!S REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 100, Bold-sin eet.

The Invention was recently introduced into tngland, at
the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON ; and
the following are a few extracts from the leading Journals
relating to its merits :
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
When we formerly described this process, the time. requi-
site for taking a portrait was, generally speaking. about tour
minutes; but in consequence of the great improvements that
have been made, the time has been reduced to about five se-
conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the
operation may require from aminute and a half to two minutes.

The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary
as likenesses; they are true to nature, for nature here is her
own delineator. The features are admirably marked Out and
delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi-
nary, that they are really startling.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIRENIESSEB.—One of the most inter-
esting sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting
crowds daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic nio,e of
taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short
space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is
down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a per{
simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is cal
be the artist, and her performance is trul
leaving immeasurably behind it everythin'
could effect

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(Prom the Times.)
• THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.
been so far perfected as to be almost hien
improvement. The novelty attendant up.... —„ „
being furnished in the short space of live seconds
more correct miniature likeness than the most a
plished artist could paint on ivory, after days of lab
study, coupled with the fineness of the weather,
together a host of curious .fashiouables, at the
technic Institution, so mans, indeed, that notwithstan,
feent
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appropriated byrties a
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wag
the short period of time occupied in the operation, the n
was crowded for hoaupla•srttno
their turn. The
process—for so it. may be termed—is well Calculated ti,r
which
a very
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s lass,
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object desired, being on the highest story of the iustitnti
From the roof,f
an h?beihchthiiset constructed
powerful of bluleig
,
ingeniously contrived as to revolCe with the sun.
aainnqdusiartp portion is ertrrot'n 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 reclinedbackwards. 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 pl:ite
40 be impressed with the portrait. Having done !:o liar a 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.