INCREASING PARTICULARLY THE EFFECT OF DECORATIVE PICTURES, LANDSCAPES, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS, THROUGH LOOKING-GLASSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugenio Agneni, of 29, Devonshire Street, Queen
Square, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, an Historical Painter,
native of Rome, for the Invention of "INCREASING PARTICULARLY THE
EFFECT OF DECORATIVE PICTURES, LANDSCAPES, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS,
THROUGH LOOKING-GLASSES."
Sealed the 1st July 1859, and dated the 11th January 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugenio Agneni at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
January 1859.
EUGENIO AGNENI, of 29, Devonshire Street, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury,
in the County of Middlesex, an Historical Painter, native of Rome, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "INCREASING PARTICULARLY THE
EFFECT OF DECORATIVE PICTURES, LANDSCAPES, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS THROUGH
LOOKING-GLASSES," to be as follows :-
My new method consists in cutting the outlines of pictures or other artistic
productions (which require to be performed with a peculiar art for the
purpose) and in applying the same to looking-glasses in the following manner :—
I do ingrave the outline of such paintings or drawings upon the quicksilver
of looking-glasses or upon any other substance employed in manufacturing the
same. I do scratch out such substance or reflecting apparatus and do apply

page_text: upon the cleared part of the looking-glasses my artistic productions; likewise,
I do apply at first the artistic subjects upon simple glasses, outlining the same
afterwards with the reflecting substances. This method skilfully put in practice
on decorative nintunes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Eugenio Agneni in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
July 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EUGENIO
AGNENI, of 29, Devonshire Street, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, in the County
of Middlesex, an Historical Painter, native of Rome, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of the month of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto him, the said Eugenio Agneni, Her special licence that he, the said
Eugenio Agneni, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
he, the said Eugenio Agneni, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"INCREASING PARTICULARLY THE EFFECT OF DECORATIVE PICTURES, LANDSCAPES,
DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS, THROUGH LOOKING-GLASSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that he, the said Eugenio Agneni, his executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under his, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office, within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that he, the said
do hereby declare the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My new catographic method consists in cutting the outlines of pictures and
other artistic productions (which require to be performed with.a. peculiar

page_text: talent and skill for the purpose), and in applying the same to looking-glasses
in the following manner:-I do engrave the outline of such paintings or
drawings upon the quicksilver of looking-glasses or upon any other substance
employed in manufacturing the same. I do scratch out such substance or
reflecting apparatus, and do apply upon the cleared part of the looking-glasses
the artistic productions; likewise, I do apply at first the artistic subjects upon
simple glasses, outlining the same afterward with the reflecting substances.
This method skillfully put in practice produces a marvellous effect, specially in
decorative pictures.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugenio Agneni, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord 1859.
EUGENIO AGNENT Gol