AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS FOR OBTAINING COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Morgan-Brown, Patent Agent, of 38, Southampton
'Buildings, London, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS
FOR OBTAINING COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS." A communication from
abroad by Theodor Pixis, of Munich.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Morgan-Brown at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th September 1880..
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, Patent Agent, of 38, Southampton Buildings, 'London.
'AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS FOR OBTAINING COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PRINTS." [A communication from abroad by Theodor Pixis, of Munich.]
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The said Invention relates to pictures, and more particularly to improvements
in the fabrication of colored pictures by means of photoprinting.
According to the present Invention I preparo the materials, viz., cloth, wood,
leather, tissue, etc., with 'the corresponding colors in such way that a photoprint
transferred thereon gives to the picture a high degree of perfection, which can bo
increased by retouching.
"
Before the plate or other substance is colored a thin photoprint may give the
outlines of the picture to facilitate the painting.
Another way is to transfer the photoprint on transfer paper and to color it
thereon; when it is transferred afterwards to other material the colours also are
under the print.
It also may be made on transparent material, viz., tracing paper or linen, a thin
sheet of gelatine, glass, or other suitable material, and then painted from behind,
which, by retouching on the front, may be perfected. The colours can be painted
also directly on the print, which must be dried quickly by adding some Japan gold
size to the printing ink, so no color at all will be on the side where the picture
is seen from.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Morgan-Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th
February 1881.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, Patent Agent, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London.
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS FOR OBTAINING COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PRINTS." A communication from abroad by Theodor Pixis, of Munich.
The said Invention relates to pictures, and more particularly to improvements
in the fabrication of colored pictures by means of photoprinting.
According to the present Invention I prepare the materials, vis., cloth, wood,
leather, tissue, etc., with the corresponding colours in such way that a photoprint
transferred thereon gives to the picture a high degree of perfection, which can be
increased by retouching.
Before the plate or other substance is coloured a thin photoprint may give the
outlines of the picture to facilitate the painting.
Another way is to transfer the photoprint on transfer paper and to colour it
thereon; when it is transferred afterwards-to-other material the colours also are
under the print.
It
may also be made on-transparent material, vic, tracing paper or linen, a thin
sheet of gelatino,-glass, or other suitable material, and then-painted-from_behind,
which, by retouching on the front, may be perfected.—The colours_can be painted
also directly on the print, which must be dried quickly by adding some Japan gold-
size to the printing ink, so no colour at all will be on the side where the picture is
seen from.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that
I claim a process of transferring photoprints,-
1st. To previously painted sheets or plates; or
2nd. On autographical paper, which is painted afterwards, and the picture
transferred then to any wanted material; or
3rd. On transparent material, which must be painted from behind or on the
dried print, or which must be put on a plate or sheet painted in advance for this
purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Morgan-Brown, have hereunto sot
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
W. MORGAN-BROWN. (LS.)