...Institution of Great Britain," under the title of "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate ol Silver; with observations by H. Davy." This is the first recorded attempt at fixing the images of...

...of this interesting art, when Sir Humphrey Davy published, in the Journal of the Royal Institution, "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings on Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light on the Nitrate of Silver." The change indicated here, and the gradual steps which led to it, are not...

...rank as the first photographer in order of time, his " account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles by the agency of light upon nitrate of silver," dating from 1802. Since his day there has been a sort of perpetual progress in reference to the art...

...Journal of the. Royal Institution, under the title : ' An Account of a Method of copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the agency of Light...Nitrate of Silver ; with Observations by H. Davy.' In the experiments detailed in this communication, white paper and white, leatiier were imbued with...

...of a view of galvanism. In another number ho gave an account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles by the agency of light upon nitrate of silver, invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq. He says, ' Nothing but a method of preventing the unshaded parts of the...

...the " Journal of the Eoyal Institution " a paper on "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver." Let us take an extract or two from this paper, first reminding our readers that Daguerro did not announce...

...Royal Institution a paper by Wedgwood, entitled " An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles, by the Agency of Light...Nitrate of Silver; with observations, by H. Davy." Such a paper would lead the reader to suppose that very little remained to be effected, and that mere...

...the Itoyal Institution, with the following title:—"An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles by the agency of light...nitrate of silver : with observations by H. Davy." " White paper, or white leather, moistened with solution of nitrate of silver, undergoes no change...

...the Itoyal Institution, with the following title:—"An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles by the agency of light...nitrate of silver : with observations by H. Davy." " White paper, or white leather, moistened with solution of nitrate of silver, undergoes no change...

...next called attention to photographic action, in a paper read before the Royal Institution, entitled, "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings on Glass,...Nitrate of Silver," with Observations by H. Davy. This was the first published account of producing photographs. Wedgwood used white leather or white...