The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-01
PAINTED WITH A hair.
The Marvellous work of an EnglIsh Aliors
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The Marvellous Work OF an EngI1h MioFs'
Eep York sun.
A microscopist fancler Of this city who
does not ride his hobby out Of his home,
and would not for the world allow him.
self to be interviewed upon his pet subject
for q newspaper, entertained the other
evening at his house q company Of per-
pobs. He walked TO table standing in
the centre OF the room, upon which was
his iavorite microscope.
81 have several little things 10 tell you
that are not known except by microscoo:.
pists. Here Ia slip OF glass, for instance"
he continued, as he picked up anarroW
glass slide, (which contains the represen'
tation OF beautiful boquet OF howers.
The representation, when looked Of with
the naked eye, can hardly be seen at all.
II simply looks like small shot. The
bouquet, when you look at 1t through
the instrument, contains, as you can dis.
cover, eiVhty.two distinct flowers Of
various shades and colors, and each
is as perfect as it would be possible
for an artist to represent It on canvas.
The entire bouquet, including all the
flowers, leaves, etc, was made from the
scales and hair OF Brazilian butterflies.
The dust from the wings OF the butterflies
WAS picked up and placed in position by
Henry Dalton, OF London, who is now
dead, Nlalton, with the aid OF micro
scope, picked up one particle oil the dust
a. q time on the end OF hair, aud ADJUST
ed it 10 the slide in such q manner that
when his task was finished the bouquet
assumed its present beautiful and perfect
form,
ALTHOUGH Dalton was disSipated he ex'
celled most OF his imita.ors in his peculiar
line OF art. Among miCroscopists his
works are priced as highly as the works o.
the great masters in painting are valued
by artists who work GA canvas. A painter
who can paint complete scene on sur
face as email rs sleeve button is Consider'
ed skiilul, yet Dalton used a sing lie hait
for brush snd dealt with particles oi
matter scarcely visible 10 the nal ed eye
which he placed in their respective posi-
tions with the aid Of his microscope will
ouch accuracy that he finally produced
his representations, which are so correct
in every detail that artists who have ex'
amiAed them critically have almost bSen
overcome with establishment. This Is
Whist call one OF the wonderful achieve
ments OF the century.
He was G fast worker, and, by laboring
almost necessarily, he could finish 1t,
think, in the course OF week or ten days
The Dalton slides are very valuable IN
America. There are not more than hity
Dalton slides in this country and they
can scarcely DO purchased for love, OF
money. In fact, as l said before, they
are as highly priced by miCroscopisti
throughout the world as rare painting
by a celebrated master is priced.
have also one or two other slides executed
by artists not go noted as Dalton. Gray's
"E,eyy," containing thiity't%o verses. has
been photographed by the aid OF
miscroscope on Glide within space Of
Une.tenlh Of all inch square, and is per
fectly legib!e when read through power
full instrument"
The company looked through the in
strument and saw, among other objects
tho tongue Of fly, the toe nail OF gnaf,
the digestive apparatus Of flea, the eye.
brow Of an insect too small TO be dete cited
with the naked eye, the circulation OF the
blood in mosquito's jugulsr vein, an ab'
cess on the back OF fly 3 neck, fracture
in an ants collar bone, and thousand
extraordinary sights.