The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

146 THE FERROTYPE. .
universal American public, before that devoutly
to be detested consummation takes place.
The apparatus required, then, is the small re-
volving or the conical back-ground, but as both of
those articles are patented (!),
let us have a light
frame of pine wood, upon which we will stretch
a cloth ground not more than four feet square ;
but I suppose that three feet square might be
large enough. Now, if it is desirable to produce
the effect of the revolving or of the conical
grounds, let us shade one-half of the ground by
passing something between it and the side light,
so as to make the part of the ground nearest the
light a shade darker than the rest. This can
verv easilv be done bv Dlacino^ a shade between
the ground and the light, advancing it far enough
to throw the shadow where it is wanted, We now
cause the sitter to assume the desired position, ad-
just the drapery, and arrange the light so as to
produce the desired effect; having done which,
we place in front of the individual (whose por-
trait we are about to cause the sun to take for
us) another frame, which su})ports a large sheet
of white card-board, which is cut an oval
opening, sufficiently large to allow the head and
shoulders to be ex})Osed, when the frame is placed
immediately over them, so as to be in the same
focus as the face of the person sitting. We have
now, to produce the desired effect, a white border,
with a sharp cut edge around the head and shoul-