The following information is taken from Cist, Charles. Our daguerreian artists stand high everywhere. Reed, the artist, who carried portraits taken by Hawkins and Faris, to Europe, states, in a letter home, that their works were recognized at a glance in Florence, by Frenchmen and others, as American productions, and superior to anything produced on the continent of Europe. Hawkins, in addition to his daguerreotypes, produces, what he terms, a solograph picture. These are portraits and miniatures which possess the beauty of superior oil paintings, and the exquisite finish of highly-wrought miniatures.
Nothing can exceed their truthfulness of likeness and life-like coloring.
While these pictures are equal to finished paintings in color, they excell even the daguerreotype, in fidelity. Posted for your enjoyment.