AN IMPROVED PROCESS, SYSTEM OR METHOD OF PRODUCING PERMANENT COLOURED "PHOTO" GRAPHIC CARD PICTURES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Horace Dawes of Brook Cottage Windermere
in the County of Westmorland Artist for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PROCESS, SYSTEM OR METHOD OF PRODUCING PERMANENT COLOURED "PHOTO"
GRAPHIC CARD PICTURES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Horace Dawes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th March 1883.
ALFRED HORACE DAWES, of Brook Cottage, Windermere, in the County of
Westmorland, Artist, "AN IMPROVED PROCESS, SYSTEM, OR METHOD OF PRODUCING
PERMANENT COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC, CARD PICTURES,"
The object of this Invention is the production of coloured photographic pictures
which shall more nearly resemble the long desired effects of natural colouring
produced by the Camera; and, being mounted upon cardboard or other light or
convenient substance, without the use of glass, either front or back,--unless in the
usual separate manner of picture frames and framing,-they are suitable for
portrait albums" or such like places or purposes, similar to the ordinary
uncoloured photographic pictures heretofore so used.
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In carrying my Invention into effect, I take an ordinary unmounted paper
photograph, and first immerse it in a bath of oil, varnish and spirit, and allow
it to remain therein until it assumes a strong, horny and transparent state and
appearance. I then take the picture from the bath, and carefully remove any
surplus quantity of the bath mixture, and,-with oil paint, by preference,-I paint
in the desired colours and effects, upon one side or face of this loose transparented
photograph.
I now prepare the "mounting card" for the before-described picture, and, this
(the picture) being coloured with oil paint, I face or prepare the "mount" with
similar material, and, in so doing, I prefer to repeat the outlines and colours of the

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picture upon the mount, to produce purity and clearness, and to prevent confusion
of the colours, according to the nature of the picture and other circumstances.
I then carefully lay the picture upon the so prepared card or
to paint, and apply sufficient pressure to cause them to adhere to each other, and
I afterwards continue and increase this pressure, between polished surfaces, until
the whole, photo, paint and mount,-are thoroughly and permanently united,
and in some cases I afterwards apply a clear, hard, varnish to the surface; and
thus, by the foregoing process and employing the colours between the photograph
and the "mount" upon or before which it is laid, I obtain, without the use of
glass, what may be called a naturally shaded and coloured, card photographic
picture, for albums or other similar uses or purposes.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Horace Dawes in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th August 1883.
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ALFRED HORACE DAWES, of Brook Cottage, Windermere, in 'the County of
Westmorland, Artist, AN IMPROVED PROCESS, SYSTEM OR METHOD OF PRODUCING
PERMANENT COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC CARD PICTURES
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The object of this Invention is the production of coloured photographic pictures
which shall more nearly resemble the long-desired effects of natural colouring
produced by the camera, and, being mounted upon paper, card or other convenient.
substance, (without the use of glass) they are suitable for "portrait albums," or
such like places or purposes.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I take an ordinary unmounted paper
photograph, and, after reducing its thickness, if necessary,-I immerse it in a bath
of oil, varnish and spirit, and allow it to remain therein until it assumes a horny
and transparent state and appearance. I then take the picture from the bath and
carefully remove any surplus quantity of the bath mixture, and,-with oil paint
by preference, I paint the desired colours and effects upon one side or face of this
loose transparented photograph.
I now prepare the mounting paper, card or base, for the before-described picture,
and this (the picture) being coloured with oil paint, I face or prepare the "mount,"-
whatever it may be, with similar material, and, in so doing I prefer to repeat
(reversed) the outline and colours of the picture upon the mount, to produce purity,
definition and clearness, and to prevent confusion or alteration of the colours,
according to the nature of the picture and other circumstances.
The paint upon both the foregoing having attained a certain consistency or
spissitude, I then carefully lay the picture upon the so prepared "mount,"-paint
to paint, and apply sufficient pressure to cause them to adhere to each other, and
I afterwards continue and increase this pressure, between polished surfaces, until
the whole, photo, paint and mount, are thus thoroughly and permanently
united. In some cases I afterwards enamel the surface, or apply thereto a clear,
bard varnish, and thus, by the foregoing process, with the colours between the
photograph and the "mount" upon or before which it is laid, I obtain-without
the use of glass, what may be called a coloured, naturally shaded, card or other
photographic picture for albums or other similar uses or purposes.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine or restrict myself to tho
precise details which I have described or referred to, as the same may be modified
without deviating from the principles or main features of the said Invention; but
what I consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me, by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
The production of oil paint or other coloured photographic pictures, wherein,
by the herein-before described process or system or any mere modification thereof,-
embodying the placing of the colouring matter between the transparented photo-
graph and the paper, card, or other substance upon or before which it is laid or
mounted, the natural lights and shades produced by the camera are preserved,

page_text: and full toned & well defined permanent coloured photographic pictures-without
the use of glass-are obtained, virtually as or after the manner herein-before
explained and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Horace Dawes have hereunto set my
hand and seal this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
Witness.
WILLIAM DAWES,
Kingston Grove,
Leeds.
ALFRED-HORACE DAWES (L.S.)