Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-02-01

wiled from her seat, and made to become the
painter of her own fair form; by which Art
is constrained to leap from her pedestal and
lay herself on canvass, without the inter-
vention of the painters skill; and even the
frowning thunder-clouds of Heaven are
forced into the harness, and made to draw
their own portraits, however un-patleHe-able
it may be to them, IS from the Providence
Journal. The exhibition spoken of is in
Chambers street, New York.
The DAGUERREoTYPE.-I visited this
morning the exhibitation of pictures pro-
duced by the Daguerreotype, and propose
10 give some account OF them, which al
though imperfect, may still interest those
who have never seen them. The collection
consists Of more than twenty specimens of
different sizes, but measuring generally six
or seven inches high, by four or five wide.
Each plate is surrounded by a wide margin
drawing paper and is framed and glazed.
They are displayed upon desks, but may be
AIKEN to the light and examined at the
pleasure of the visitors. The greater
part OF them represent certain views in tn =
city of Paris; the rest, groupings OF still
life, formed apparently in the studio OF NJ.
Dagarre. The reader may obtain ia tcler
able idea of the general effect OF these
pictures, BY imagining them to have been
painted with some delicate silvery pigment
upon metallic mirror Of the most even and
highly polished surfacc,-this surtace itself
, being left untouched for the darkS and the
greater or less brightness of the pigment
indicating the various gradations of light.
The protogenic process Is indeed similar
tO this. 1t is only the lights Of the object
which act upon the prepared plate, and pro-
duce that infinitely thin deposit of silver
grey mineral which by its greater or less
accumulation forms the picture. The dark
parts Of the object produce no chemical
change at all upon the plate, and therefore
the corresponding partsofthe representation
at the end OF the process, appear entirely
untouched, and wien the picture is held at
a particular angle show the bright polish Of
the naked metal, all the rest of the surface
being dull snd couded. This explanation
am aware, is obscure, but give it. because
it is upon this point that those VINO have
never seen protegenic drawings are most
curious. Their general effect is in truth 50
peculiar it cannot be easily described by any
familiar comparison, and must be seen to be
comprehended, may add here, that con-
! trary to what might be supposed, these un-
touched parts of the plate, except when
seen at the particular angle mentioned, do
| hrir nd lich mi ha
dark and well defined shadows of the piece,
and give it depth oftone equal to that Of
any mezzotint or India ink drawing. 1t
may be seen also from this, that the lights
and darks Of the object are properly repre-
sented without being reversed as many be-
lieve.
There has been no eXaggeratlon in des-
cription Of the beauty of these Suu-paint-
ings. They reflect Reality SO exactly that
the critic yol must go beyond these images
and find fault with the architecture of IL
building for instance, or the hazine;s Of the
tmosphere-matters over which the view
taker has no control. He is the servant of
Truth. There is nothing inserted in his
productions for effect. You have a reliance
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