Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-21
lRT NOTES.
PHOTOGRAPHY UTILIZED FOR DECO
RATING PORCELAIN.
A New Field for Girls With Artistic
Tastes - Illustrating Adyertis-
ments-Personal Notes.

"oiho vi dlb Gan NOW De Dougnt LOT lev
pence; stuffS and fabrics of all kinds printed
with the designs of the most gorgeou.
. tapestries Of the world are within reach O
even the most slender purse; whilst in meta
work art and science have united to pro
duce articles Of beauty at relatively little
cost. Hitherto, however, only the very
wealthy could indulge the luxury of pos
sessiDg painted china and porcelain. The
artistic education of young people has
made decorative ceramics less rare and
costly than formerly, but the complexities
attending the productions of painted china
apart from the time and talent requisite
for palnting-placed it almost entirely be.
yond the reach Of people ofmoderate means.
But here, as III other instances, science has
stepped in to aid in cheapening and popu-
larizing decorated ware, and in the inyen-
ton of NJ. Germeuil Bonnaud we have the
means OF producing in few minutes re-
suits equal to those obtained by DAYS of
tedious hand painting.
The process is a very beautiful one. and
| highly interesting as scientific develop
ment. A thin plate of glass is sensitized
| with bi-chromate of potash, and as soon as
dry an unmounted photograph in black
and white is laid upon it in au ordinary
photographers printing frame. After ex-
posure for few minutes, the photograph
is removed from the glass, on which there
IS, apparently, no image visible but on
| some dry powder of neutral tint being
busted over the glass the picture is seen.
In some places the powder adheres, but in
others it fails off, and the same is the case
with regard to the other colors applied,
| which are merely busted on without any
attempt to follow the outline. The plate
is next flooded with yarnish to fix the pig
ments, and after being allowed to dry it is
| further touched up with other tints The
most remarkable feature of the process is
| that the colors seem to have q selective
affinity for those of the original and they
! certainly do not adhere indiscriminately.
but fall into their places as If attracted by
some chemical agency. 1t only takes a
few minutes to 60 over an entire picture in
this way, and in maryelousIy short
period what at first was mere gray out
line, grows into a finished painting, in
which are all the-varying depths of tone,
| shade and other qualities of accurate rem
reservations of nature.
| When the painting is complete upon the
glass it is flooded with specially prepared
collodion, and before this is hard the plate is
! immersed first in water aud then in potash
The china to be decorated-plate, vase or
other articles placed at the bottom of a
| shallow vessel of water, and the glass held
| above it with its decorated side in the
water and turned toward the china. Gradu-
! ally the film separates from the glass and
settles down upon the china, carrying the
| picture with it. The vase or plate as the
case may be, is then carefully lifted out of
| the water, and by the time it is dry the
caustic solution has entirely eaten away
the collodion film, leaving nothing on the
surface OF the earthenware but the design
| in dry mineral colors, but all the details of
the picture, with its most delicate shades,
| are preserved with wonderful minuteness.
| All that is now requisite to complete the
work is the baking or ''fring,n TO set the
I colors permanently, as well as to glaze and
| hlghten their tone The process is sim
pie, and may be carried out for the most
part by ordinary laborers though skill is
required for some parts of the operation.
Mr.. Bonnaud, who is the inventor of the
detective photograph camera, and the
beautiful method of enamel photography,
has spent quarter Of century in work
ing out and developing the process above
described, and all who have inspected
specimens of his work agree that his time
and talent have not been spent in vain.-
Nerc0stlc Chronicle.
ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISEMENTS.
There is an Office in New York, says the
New York World, in which young women
earn their living by doing pictures for
the illustrated advertisements. 1t Is a
! work that pays very well, but requires a
! special talent to make it successful. ANY
| one who notices these advertisements will
| see that as rule the drawing is very well
done, though the reproduction of it be
crude. Some of the best women artists
who do illustrations for the leading maga-
zines make little extra spending money
! occasionally by doing a series Of adver-
tiSements for some well-kuOwn commercial
| house. but a great majority of those seen
in the newspapers and among the adver-
| Using pages of magazines are the work of
| girls who have been graduated from the
various art schools in this city and who
have sought and found employment in one
of the several advertising bureaus, where
| such work is carried on in an organized
way. Every girl is encouraged to de-
yelop her speciality; as, for example, one
young woman has particular gift for
drawing pigs, and she draws nothing but
| pigs-pigs in every conceivable attitude,
wearing all sorts of garments and doing
all sorts of things, which are supposed to
set forth how much wiser than men are
the little porklings, which appreciate the
value OF certain soap or such and such
| baking powder.
Another girl developed the special taste
for kittens and all her brain and ener-
gies are applied to the task Of attracting
| by their aid the eye and the fancy to uul-
| brellas or hair tonic, as the case might be.
Their work is very varied in It's appIica-
| tion, if not in its nature, and they turn
their hand to anything, from illustrating
! the circular issued by one of the wealthy
railways to explain h2w beautiful is the
road through which it travels, and how
comfortable its accommodations, to doing
ccmic head to adorn the yellow handbills
which boys sprinkle along the streets or
hand to passers-by. Good art work, no
matter what form it takes, is always we'll
| paid, and these young women draw good
| salaries; some of the more advanced of
them, who can get up handsome colored
theater posters. have very enviable in
comes. There is another office of young
women which does nothing but design
lovely new things in coffins and decora-
tions. The fashions in these melancholy
pieces of furniture change very frequently,
and the successful undertaken, TO keep at
the head of his trade, must be constantly
introducing novelties and little new luxu-
ries in the way of mournful suggestive
ness. 1t has been found by experiment
that no one is so ingenious and clever in
doing this as young women who throw
themselves with real artistic ardor into the
question of silyer-plated handles and crepe
| bows, so that most of the undertakers
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