IMPROVEMENTS IN PRO- DUCING PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES ON TISSUES OR FABRICS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Janicot, of Rue Le Peletier, No. 30, at
Paris, Photographer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRO-
DUCING PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES ON TISSUES OR FABRICS."
Scaled the 10th September 1870, and dated the 18th March 1870.

page_text: 2nd. In rendering the photographic proof on the said fabric trans-
parent by means of wax, oil, a fatty body, varnish or other suitable
material, and, by preference, paraffin.
3rd. In painting the reverse side of the fabric thus made transparent,
by following with a brush or pencil all the lines of the photographic
image which is fixed thereon, taking care to see by examining the
obverse side of the fabric, that is to say, the opposite side, if the picture
is a good and true reproduction of the object copied.
4th. When the painting is finished, in rendering the fabric opaque by
covering the dry painted side with a layer of opaque color, or by pasting
the painted fabric on paper, non-transparent cloth, or other opaque
surface, so as to intercept the transparency of the colored image.
5th. In then fixing or mounting the fabric bearing the photographic
picture in a frame or otherwise, as is done with an ordinary picture.
There is thus obtained a painted cloth or surface on which the painting
applied on the reverse side to the photographic image appears on the
obverse side by the direct transparency of the fabric.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Janicot in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
JANICOT, of Rue Le Peletier, No. 30, at Paris, Photographer, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Janicot, Her special licence that I,
the said Charles Janicot, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Janicot, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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

page_text: My process of obtaining photographic paintings or pictures on fabrics
has for its chief characteristic the utilization by direct transparency of
the effects or result of painting applied by a pencil or a brush on the
reverse side to the photograph fixed on the fabric which has been
rendered transparent.
The novel features in my process are,-
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First. The transparency produced by the substances mentioned of the
fabric previously prepared and sensitized, and on which the image or
picture has been fixed by the usual processes adopted in photography.
Second. The application of painting to the reverse side of the fabric
by following (taking advantage of the transparency) the lines of the
photographic image which is on the obverse side.
Third. The covering of the dry painting with an opaque coating, or
the pasting of the reverse side of the fabric on paper or other opaque
substance to intercept the daylight.
Fourth. The production of a photographic painting on a fabric
allowing to be seen on the obverse side by direct transparency the
painting produced on the reverse side. Or the painting can be applied
on the image or picture itself and a like effect is produced on the other
side, and a reverse image is obtained.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,
producing photographic pictures on tissues or fabrics by the means and
in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Janicot, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of September One thousand
eight hundred and seventy.