Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-20
--"- - A UNIVERSAL ART.

When, in the year 1851, the Great Exhibi. | ton of the Industry of All Nations was held in Hyde Park, nearly all the photographic pictures exhibited were daguerreotypes, beautifully elaborate in their minuteness of detail, but lacking boldness of relief, and in general vapid and vague in facial expression The exhibition jury, in their report, re. marked that photography was yet in it's in. fancy, but that all which had been hitherto mplished-marvelous and exquisite as it was-could be considered as nothing to what would be performed when the veil was re- moved which for the present obscured it's sci entiic principles. The veil, unfortunately has not yet been altogether removed. The deficiencies in the appliance of photography to artistic, scientific and antiquarian require ments have long since been supplied. The surgeon, the naturalist, the archscologist, the mieroscopist, all find in the photographic operator one of their trustiest and most ser viceable friends. The all receptive lens transmits to the sensitive tablets of glass now the text of Shakespearean First Folio, and now the features of a convicted felon-
 now the presentment of Greek coin thou sands of years old, and now the image of a
 squalling baby to be sold for a penny as a
 birthday card. There is nothing too high nor unfortunately too low, for photography
 to undertake in the way of producing appa-
 rently faithful transcripts of all kinds of ob,
 iects, animate and inanimate. Only few
 years ago the illustrator of books, often an artist of the very highest merit, made his drawing on the wood-block itself, and his
 delicate lines and tints were ruthlessly but
 necessarily cut away by the engraver. At
 present the carefully finished drawing is
 photographed down. on the sensitive sur
 face of the block. The engrayer only cuts
 into the sun drawing, and the artist keeps his
 own drawing to sell again another day
 Photography has also been applied to the
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 photographic basis may be seen in innumera-
 ble shop windows page of this journal
 has been photographed on sheet of the di-
 an,eter of pea, and, under a film of ena- mel. may last as long as an Etruscan vase or
 an Egyptian lachrymatory-that is, to all time. The gallop of 8 race e-hsrse, the run ming of greyhound, the flight of bird, the procession of the clouds in the sky and of the waves on the sea, can be instantane- ously photographed. Even the blessed sun himself, who is the patron of photographers,
 has had his own face photographed, spots and all. As a.social benefactor, in bringing the ends of the earth together, and drawing | all humanity into sympathetic intercommuni2 cation, photography rivals steam, the electric telegraph and cheap postage Still the veil is nus wholly lifted. The laws of photo graphic focusing are yet imperfectly under stood, and peuple continue to be preserted with photographic portraits of themselves in
 which their hats are seversl sizes larger than thsir heads, while their lower extremities are apparently afflicted with elephantiasis, and their arms become as shrunken as the arm of erook-baeked Glouoestarg No the veil has certainly not been lifted, since, although an nounoements that photographs are about to I De taken in natural colors have been made as frequently as that nasigable balloon is about to start for China, we seem to be as far of from the discovery of chromo photography as from that of the aerial machine "