The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

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THE FERROTYPE.
love, the noble ones we respect, and the great,
who are the pride and admiration of the country.
Time, while working all these changes, shall
increase our knowledge, add skill to the artist,
and improve the artistic taste and judgment of the
people—but it is very doubtful if time shall pro-
duce any other style of portraiture which shall
supersede the Ferrotype, or reduce it to a lower
place than its present high position in popular es-
timation.
The productions of Positive Photography are
all of them famous? The Daguerreotype, as the
first, had a brief but triumphant day. It made
its advent as one of the wonders of the world,
and excited as much admiration, perhaps, as did
the telegraph, in the minds of the people; it was
welcomed as a greater boon to the masses than was
the telegraph, but unlike the telegraph, which
remains to us at this day, substantially as the la-
mented Morse sent it, to do its work of annihila-
ting time, the Daguerreotype has passed from
popular favor, has been superseded by other
methods of portraiture as far ahead of it as it
was in advance of the productions of the itiner-
ant miniature painters or silhouette cutters.
It is unnecessary that any account of the or-
igin of the Daguerreotype process should be given
in this connection, but it might furnish interest-
ing matter for thought to readers ; therefore we
copy the following from an authentic English
publication, which occupies on the shelves of our