it would take his portrait, and
reveal his actions.

For, to use a metaphor we have already employed, the eye of the camera
would see plainly where the human eye would find nothing but darkness.

Alas! that this speculation is somewhat too refined to be introduced with
effect into a modern novel or romance; for what a _denouement_ we should
have, if we could suppose the secrets of the darkened chamber to be
revealed by the testimony of the imprinted paper.

[PLATE IX. FAC-SIMILE OF AN OLD PRINTED PAGE.]

PLATE IX. FAC-SIMILE OF AN OLD PRINTED PAGE.

PLATE IX. FAC-SIMILE OF AN OLD PRINTED PAGE.

Taken from a black-letter volume in the Author's library, containing the
statutes of Richard the Second, written in Norman French. To the
Antiquarian this application of the photographic art seems destined to be
of great advantage.

Copied of the size of the original, by the method of superposition.

[PLATE X. THE HAYSTACK.]

PLATE X. THE HAYSTACK.

PLATE X. THE HAYSTACK.

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it
will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute
details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but
which no artist would take the trouble to copy faithfully from nature.

Contenting himself with a general effect, he would probably deem it
beneath his genius to copy every accident of light and shade; nor could he
do so indeed, without a disproportionate expenditure of time and trouble,
which might be otherwise much better employed.

Nevertheless, it is well to have the means at our disposal of introducing
these minutiae without any additional trouble, for they will sometimes be
found to give an air of variety beyond expectation to the scene
represented.

[PLATE XI. COPY OF A LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT.]

PLATE XI. COPY OF A LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT.

PLATE XI. COPY OF A LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT.

We have here the copy of a Parisian caricature, which is probably well
known to many of my readers. All kinds of engravings may be copied by
photographic means; and this application of the art is a very important
one, not only as producing in general nearly fac-simile copies, but
because it enables us at pleasure to alter the scale, and to make the
copies as much larger or smaller than the originals as we may desi