 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1874 - 808 pages
...was, in his own words, " led to reflect on the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting, which the glass lens of the camera throws upon the paper in its focus," and upon the possibility of rc-ndering these images permanent. Possessing some chemical knowledge, he was... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1878 - 560 pages
...the mouth of October 1833, when trying to sketch the scenery along the shores of the Lake of Con1o by the aid of a camera-lucida, and wearied by many...when he read one day, in a scientific journal, that hiu own solu-tion of the mystery had been, if not anticipated, at all eventu rivalled by the parallel... | |
 | Charles Robert Gibson - Photography - 1908 - 434 pages
...in 1844. He tells us there that it was "the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting which the glass lens of the camera throws upon the paper in its focus — fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away " — it was the beauty... | |
 | Charles Robert Gibson - Photography - 1919 - 266 pages
...in 1844. He tells us there that it was " the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting which the glass lens of the camera throws upon the paper in its focus — fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away " — it was the beauty... | |
 | Alexander Eugen Conrady - Photography - 1923 - 630 pages
...led him to the idea of photography: "... the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting, which the glass lens of the camera throws upon the paper in its focus — fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away ". Talbot's Line of... | |
 | M. Christine Boyer - Architecture - 1994 - 580 pages
...through the camera obscura: "This [act] led me to reflect on the inimitable beauty of nature's painting which the glass lens of the Camera throws upon the paper in its focus . . . creatures of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away . . . how charming it would be if... | |
 | Hugh Honour, John Fleming - Art - 2005 - 996 pages
...recalled how he had seen in a camera obscura 'the inimitable beauty of the pictures of nature's painting which the glass lens of the Camera throws upon the paper in its focus - fairy pictures, creations of a moment and destined as rapidly to fade away'. And he thought 'how... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 14 pages
...the paper. And this led me to reflect on the inimitable beauty of the pictures of nature's painting which the glass lens of the Camera throws upon the paper in its focus - fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away. It was during these... | |
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And this led me to reflect on the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting which the glass lens of the Camera throws upon the paper in its focus — fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away. 