The Evolution of Photography: With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty YearsWerge, John, active 1854-1890
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The Evolution of Photography: With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years
Werge, John, active 1854-1890
Photography -- History
WRATTEN & WAINWRIGHT,
PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTS AND APPARATUS MAKERS,
AND
Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers of the
"London" Dry Plates,
38, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONG ACRE,
LONDON, W.C.
THE AUTOTYPE COMPANY
MANUFACTURES
AUTOTYPE TISSUES, TRANSFER PAPERS, & MATERIALS
FOR PERMANENT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING.
=AUTOTYPE ENLARGEMENTS.=--Portraits and Views produced of any
dimensions up to 5 ft. by 3 ft. 6 in.; their grandeur, beauty,
and unalterability secure public favour.
=AUTOTYPE DRY PLATES=, manufactured with Burton's Coating Machine,
are rich in silver, very rapid, yielding clear vigorous negatives,
of uniform quality. The plates are of superior glass, and packed
in strong metal-grooved boxes up to 15 by 12 inches. To be
obtained only of the Autotype Company.
=BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS=, by Sawyer's =Collotype Process=, employed by
the Trustees of the British Museum, by the Royal, Palæographical,
Hellenic, Numismatical, and other learned Societies, and by the
leading publishers. Prints direct on the paper with suitable
margins.
=AUTO-GRAVURE.=--The Autotype process as applied to Photographic
Engraving on Copper is of wide application in the reproduction of
Works of Art, and is highly appreciated by the disciples of
Naturalistic Photography as efficiently rendering the qualities of
negatives direct from nature. Examples of Auto-gravure, in the
reproduction of paintings by Holman Hunt, the late Frank Holl,
R.A., W. Ouless, R.A., Val. Prinsep, A.R.A., of drawings by Hy.
Rylands, of a frieze, "Spring," by Herbert Draper, of a Group from
the frieze of the Parthenon, &c., &c., can be seen at 74, New
Oxford Street.
* * * * *
The AUTOTYPE FINE ART GALLERY,
_74, New Oxford Street, London_,
is remarkable for its display of Copies of celebrated Works by
"THE GREAT MASTERS"
from the Louvre, Vatican, Hermitage, and the National Galleries of
Italy, Spain, Holland, and London, including H.M. Collections at
Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
Albums of reference to the various Galleries are provided, are easily
looked over, and of great interest to lovers of Art. Send for the new
Pamphlet, "AUTOTYPE: a Decorative and Educational Art," per post to
any address.
The AUTOTYPE FINE ART CATALOGUE, 186 pp., free per post for 6d.
THE AUTOTYPE COMPANY, LONDON.
Offices: 74, New Oxford Street, w. c. -- Works: Ealing Dene, Middlesex.
=Grand Prix & Gold Medal, Paris Exhibition, 1889.=
Council Medal and Highest Award, Great Exhibition, London, 1851.
Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867. Medal and Highest Award,
Exhibition, London, 1862.
Medal and Diploma, Antwerp. 1878.
Medal and Diploma, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1875.
Two Gold Medals, Paris Exposition, 1878. Medal and Diploma,
Sydney, 1879.
Gold Medal, Highest Award, Inventions Exhibition, 1885.
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