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... portraits of great inventors . The marked individuality in every countenance is very observable . But these are the lineaments of the famous and fortunate discoverers . The philosopher must in his own mind draw a picture of the amount ...
... portraits of great inventors . The marked individuality in every countenance is very observable . But these are the lineaments of the famous and fortunate discoverers . The philosopher must in his own mind draw a picture of the amount ...
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... portrait : - The incipient man ( we take an extreme case ) is a thin , frail creature . His face is sharp and sallow , and has a bleared and bilious appearance . His back can be spanned with both hands , and there will be some hand to ...
... portrait : - The incipient man ( we take an extreme case ) is a thin , frail creature . His face is sharp and sallow , and has a bleared and bilious appearance . His back can be spanned with both hands , and there will be some hand to ...
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... portraits , who could have foreseen that Sol was about to wrest the pencil from the hand of the cunning limner , and ... portrait of herself paid for at a princely price . The introduction of the Daguerreotype process , some five- and ...
... portraits , who could have foreseen that Sol was about to wrest the pencil from the hand of the cunning limner , and ... portrait of herself paid for at a princely price . The introduction of the Daguerreotype process , some five- and ...
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... portraits exhibited by Messrs . Henneman of Regent Street , who at that time held the exclusive patent to produce photographs by Mr. Fox Talbot's process , represented the art as it then existed . In 1862 , the splendid collection of ...
... portraits exhibited by Messrs . Henneman of Regent Street , who at that time held the exclusive patent to produce photographs by Mr. Fox Talbot's process , represented the art as it then existed . In 1862 , the splendid collection of ...
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... portraits in this style , 10s . 6d . , " of a dozen years ago ? But every art that ministers to the vanities of the public is liable every now and then to run riot in matters of taste ; and so it is with photographic por- traiture . Let ...
... portraits in this style , 10s . 6d . , " of a dozen years ago ? But every art that ministers to the vanities of the public is liable every now and then to run riot in matters of taste ; and so it is with photographic por- traiture . Let ...
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