Photogenic drawing, or, Drawing by the agency of light
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1843
Place of publication: [Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Photography; Early works to 1850; Daguerreotype; Calotype; Ueber der Process des Scheins und die Wirkung des Lichts auf alle Korper
Other titles: Drawing by the agency of light; Edinburgh review.
Description: A critical review of four works: 1. History and practice of photogenic drawing, or, The true principles of the daguerreotype, by the inventor, L.J.M. Daguerre, translated by J.S. Memes (London, 1839) -- 2. Some account of the art of photogenic drawing, or the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the use of the artist's pencil, by Henry Fox Talbot (London, 1839) -- 3. Die calotypische Portraitirkunst, von Dr. F.A.W. Netto (Quedlingburg und Leipzig, 1842) -- 4. Ueber der Process des Schens und die Wirkung des Lichts auf alle Korper (Poggendorf Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band LVI, 1842, No. 6).
Notes: Title from running title.

"Art. I."--P. [309].

Originally published in The Edinburgh review, no. 154, Jan. 1843.

Reproduction of the original from the Columbia University Libraries.

Includes bibliographical references.