The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

]40 I^HE FERROTYPE.
to offend the sfense of the laws of gravity, the
artistic, or the beautiful. If the view is of an
outside character^ atteution must be given to those
parts requiring more prominence than others,
that they be placed so as to receive it, and that
the character of the illumination shall not alto-
gether belie the effect of the picture ;
or, in other
words, that the illumination may be from the
same general direction for the ground and sub-
ject, and not, as were the celebrated or rather
notorious ^' spirit photographs,^' made at one
time in New York, by a man named Mumler,
the lighting of his sitter being in one direction,
and illumination of the picture of the ^^spirit"
(supposed to be of some relation,) from a contrary
direction, producing a very incongruous effect
indeed, and giving rise to astonishment in the
mind that people should be found so grossly
credulous as to be imposed upon by such trickery.