 | 1861 - 676 ページ
...the invention (or rather the discovery) of the daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says : " If by an operation of mechanism animated nature could...be copied with the accuracy of a cast in plaster, in tracing on a wall, or a reflexion in a glass, without modification, and without the proprieties... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 ページ
...anticipated the invention (or rather the discovery) of the Daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says: —"If by an operation of mechanism, animated nature...almost every quality which renders art delightful." « One reason why the Daguerreotype portraits are in general so unsatisfactory may perhaps be traced... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 ページ
...invention (or rather the discovery) of the Daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says : — " If by an operation of mechanism, animated nature could...almost every quality which renders art delightful." One reason why the Daguerreotype portraits are in general so unsatisfactory may perhaps be traced to... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1879 - 192 ページ
...success ; but the duty of art is of a higher kind. If, by an operation of ART, AND ITS EELATION TO MAN. mechanism, animated nature could be copied with the...without modification, and without the proprieties and the graces of art [it is evident photography was at this time unthought of], all that utility could... | |
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Wilkie seems unconsciously to have anticipated the invention (or rather the discovery) of the Daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says : — " If by an operation of mechanism, animated nature could be copied with the accuracy of a cast in plaster,... 