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356 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [July 25,1862. They are, in fact, mostly English and Welsh scenes. “ Cheddar Clifts ” and a “ Study of Nature ” are gems which no visitors to the gallery should miss. The simple truthfulness of these and kindred works is worth a hundred feats of artistic arrangement, such as photography, undervaluing its true mission, sometimes aspires to. A very ingenious manufacturer of subjects is Mr. Robinson, whose “ Holiday in the Woods ” made quite a sensa tion at one of the annual shows of the Photographic Society. Almost as much trouble must have been expended on the building up of this scene, and on the bringing together of all its constituent parts, on the drilling its actors, on the subordi nation of its accessories, and on the careful eliminating of all petty “ accidentals,” which, though likely to pass unobserved in a tableau vivant, are apt to grow painfully obtrusive in a per manent picture—almost as much trouble, we say, is apparent in the mere posing and scene-setting, and arrangement of pro perties, in this composition, as a practised draughtsman would have found in placing the whole group on paper or canvas. There is something almost absurd in all this preparation for a mechanical and instantaneous operation. It is an anti-climax —a reversal of the order of things. Mr. Robinson’s subject photograph, “ The Lady of Shalott," is quite an artistic bouleversement. We not learn from Mr. Tennyson that this interesting damsel, before she floated down to Camelot, had her hair nicely crimped and spread out as we see it in the pic ture ; but this may or may not have been the case. What we would specially remark is the disproportion in this work between the model’s part and the artist’s. The whole merit lies in the cleverness of a pose plastique. The printing from several negatives may be adduced as a feat of photographic skill, but such a system of legerdemain is radically vicious, and cannot help photography on to higher tilings.” . It is somewhat amusing to remember that the “ set scenes ” and “ properties ” which the critic declaims against in the “ Holiday in the Woods ” are simply the noble woods of Kenilworth. His other strictures here are of equal worth. For instance, the real beauty of the “ Lady of Shalott ” con sists far more in the mystic twilight effect which pervades the meadow trees overhanging the river, than in anything else'; the faults chiefly belong to the boat and figure ; and yet we are told the “whole merit lies in the clearness of a pose plastique I” The question of composition printing is one upon which competent authorities differ; but the mode in which the critic discusses the matter shows that he un derstands nothing whatever about it, either as regards its failings, difficulties, or merits. “ Mr. Frith exhibits some of those wonderfully sunny Eastern views for which he is celebrated; and Messrs. Dolamoro and Bullock have some neatly vignetted landscapes. The cartes de visits of Mr. Kilburn must not lie passed over ; they arc very sharp and well defined. Colonel Verschoyle contributes several valuable illustrations of different processes. His favourite method seems to bo the employment of collodio-albumen, but he is also very successful with tannin. Wo spoke yesterday of the effective results of printing in carbon, instead of nitrate of silver; and wo may refer to the specimens exhibited by Messrs. C. Walker and Son as admirably demonstrating the imme diately good results of the operation. Its lasting qualities, however, are its great speciality. The prints may be submitted to acid, which will destroy the paper, but leave the carbon un injured. The perishable nature of photography is the worst charge that can be brought against it. Let this character of evanescence and frailty be removed, and photographic portraits will be preferred to all others. Wo have had to speak of the faded appearance of many pictures in the present exhibition, and we have ventured to attribute the defect to want of care in fixing the image. It is urged as a plea in extenuation that the damp on the walls has partly caused the blemish; but this excuse will only serve the photographs on the walls, not those on either of the screens.” And we may add, although the critic implies the con trary, that it is on the walls alone, and not on the screens that the palpably fading pictures arc found. Some few old pictures on the screens, have a somewhat yellow tinge; but it is unquestionably the damp walls which has proved the grand crux of exhibitors. We trust, as we have before said, that the annoyance will be turned to good account. PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICALS. CoxsIDERING the immense development of the trade in Ph tographic chemicals which has taken place of late xean and the number of articles which have to be specially P ! pared or purified for photographic purposes, it seems strata 1 that we have so few exhibitors of photographic chemicals " the department set aside for this art. There is, indeed, only one case exhibited containing chemicals alone, and not no® than two or three other cases in which the chemical agen I are shown in conjunction with apparatus. This seemst? more remarkable, as there are few photographic deales “■ any eminence who do not, at all events, profess to prep® some chemicals in a state of photographic purity. AmaW® have thus got into the habit of considering that cerat. houses make a speciality of certain photographic chemict so that if a complete chemical outfit were required, in ond to obtain the various materials in the greatest state of pW’ they must be purchased at half-a-dozen different establi. i ments. We do not know whether we are justified inasstl ing that there are really very few special manufactures 0 photographic chemicals, but an observer would be warran2 11 in drawing this inference by an inspection of the 12 ' limited display of chemicals in Class XIV. The solit case of chemicals alluded to above is contributed by NeD Hopkin and Williams (3,099). Although some of t ■ articles exhibited have been injured by the intense Iff I and heat to which they have been subjected during thebl two months, the whole collection is, perhaps, unsurpassedal the whole building for completeness and beauty. Sozoa I their exhibits have been alluded to before, as they are sho I in duplicate in the Eastern Annexe, but the greater num Pa are only exhibited here. The beauty of their bromide J cadmium has already been spoken of. Near this is a FI fine sample of recrystallized nitrate of silver, which, judgos from the excellent manner in which it has kept its col ° must be, at all events, free from that bug-bear of Pb i graphers—organic matter. A sample of iodide of ammona1 I has not stood the searching ordeal of light and heatso"l as its neighbour ; the crystals are very fine, and when 1 were first exposed were quite white, but they have 17 assumed that orange brown colour, from the separation • I iodine, so well known to all who make their own colloae I Of course, we need hardly say, that this colouration \.j nothing against its original purity, but is a natural d quence of its exposed position. A tray full of very 1/ pyrogallic acid deserves notice, and also some fine cryst hyposulphite of soda. These are of some interest, as % show photographers what the pure salt is like, it beib no means so easy to obtain in commerce as is sonda imagined. A specimen of pure tannin is especially."/ of notice at the present time, owing to the beautify P process which owes its name to this organic body. Re2 • words on the chemistry of this body may be acceptai our readers. There are several varieties of tannin, or s acid, as it is also called. They are astringent PriDL very extensively diffused throughout the vegetable » r dom. The bark and leaves of most forest trees, Sha • the oak, the elm, the willow, the horse-chesnut, a / pine ; and many fruit trees, such as the pear and pl""d tain tannin in notable quantity. The wood, bark, anld of many shrubs also contain one of the forms of 1 64 I These varieties are named according to the sourgggo2 which they are derived ; thus, tannin from the 8a u, called gallo-tannic acid, that of the oak is calledt tannic acid, that of the fustic, mori-tannic acid; the pedh of the cinchona is called quino-tannic acid, whilsttcatd mimo-tannic acid is applied to the tannin of the Sties I Besides these, there are several other distinct vAnerk, H tannin which are yet unnamed. We may revprod“ parentheses, what a fine field is here open for n"f ta mongers; there is very little doubt that any AJI varieties of tannin will answer the desired PlPmabe" end, so an ingenious experimentalist has only to Ju of al io pri perha cover from acid, and d acid n ates v absorl acid. coagu jected Pyrog not ne of gal nitrat' and ft of lit chemi [We I devote interes intima No Beckly Batters, Casella, Chance, Dallmey Dancer, De la Ri Grubb, ’ Highley "omea *retti Roas, T Silver, f Smith, 1 Wenha Voigtl Dubose errin, Robert Aeklap
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