The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

(From the Times.)

Tim ritomonApiirc MistATuitas.—The principle has
)een 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
Andy, coupled with the fineness of the weather. drew
.ogether a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly.
echnic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding
he short period of time occupied i❑ the operation, the room
a crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting
turn. The apartment appropriated for the magical
.tss—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the
)hject desired, being on the highest story of the institution.
From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about
a gnarter 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 for a few
seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterw•aids 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
*.he influence of photography.
(From the 211orning 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
tven 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 3forninq 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, ever.), touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(Prom Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDIN ARY FACT.—M INIATDRE 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
most precious gift that can he given to those who love hist
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It j 4
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tediuF,
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for ii!s
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest. (0"
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for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, Ot
paintings as large as life.

(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
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PHOTOGRAPHIC POKTRAITS.—We took p
Institution, to
on Monday cf again visiting the Poly
as er dreedtaken
witness the astonishing manner in w
by the photographic process. The room:t'ioe -
d Lord Aber-
nobility and gentry, among whom we
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each of whom, in
deen, and several other persons of rank, c''
and astonishment
' !Plight a
the warmest terms, expressed their ,
of different gentle-
at the rapidity with which the portraitsem fidelity in the execution.
men were taken, and the extreme
portraits to be any thing
hiteehchpnoicrtraitns,sa
short
, oifn a fact,
complete impossiblecn copy
y offo for
nature
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PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAtIbx't of a mezzotnt engraving,
ofin opinion,
other
sim buttsi
la
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miniature thus produced is.
„ Them is such subtilty of touch and
as uespair. Altogether this is a most
makes " no mistake.
might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
otifi efal likeness
nfeOrs bneaitnugrenoi in questions
tone in the likeness ,
dinary exhibition. Those who in per-
awtnonnd
ceerfwulitahnddeelxiAgthroatirbeing " nattered," will certainly not
ftaZtographic.method of taking likenesses •, but,
they who want the real thing, and we
~„„, to he the majority, will unquestionably
presume t"---
with great willingness in production of a minis-
a rqiineaw).
portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
minia-
ture P
and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also
ot patronisenther eotahtrehere
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arranging the ihsss 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,
pthrg
ensrleiegs.htest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its
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 fine to twenty seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.

(From ihe Curt
PnOTOGRAPIIIC LIKENESSES.—WeJournaI.)
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, iu
period varying from five to twert, seeeDde, We weft dee
tiphhted with the sehihilion.