At page 10 it is stated, on the authority of the late Robert Hunt, that some of Niépce’s early pictures may be seen at the British Museum. That was so, but unfortunately it is not so now. On making application, very recently, to examine these pictures, I ascertained that they were never placed in the care of the curator of the British Museum, but were the private property of the late Dr. Robert Brown, who left them to his colleague, John Joseph Bennett, and that at the latter’s death they passed into the possession of his widow. I wrote to the lady making enquiries about them, but have not been able to trace them further; there are, however, two very interesting examples of Niépce’s heliographs, and one photo-etched plate and print, lent by Mr. H. P. Robinson, on view at South Kensington, in the Western Gallery of the Science Collection.
For the portrait of Thomas Wedgwood, I am indebted to Mr. Godfrey Wedgwood; for that of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, to the Mayor of Chalons-sur-Saône; for the Rev. J. B. Reade’s, to Mr. Fox; for Sir John Herschel’s, to Mr. H. H. Cameron; for John Frederick Goddard’s, to Dr. Jabez Hogg; and for Frederick Scott Archer’s, to Mr. Alfred Cade; and to all those gentlemen I tender my most grateful acknowledgments. Also to the Autotype Company, for their care and attention in carrying out my wishes in the reproduction of all the illustrations by their beautiful Collotype Process.
JOHN WERGE.
London, June, 1890.
INDEX.
Archer, Frederick Scott, 58-69 Argentic Gelatino-Bromide Paper, 106 Abney’s Translation of Pizzighelli and Hubl’s Booklet, 109 A String of Old Beads, 309 Bacon, Roger, 3 Bennett, Charles, 102 Boston, 51 Bromine Accelerator, 29 Bingham, Robert J., 87 Burgess, J., 93 Cabinet Portraits, 84 Camera-Obscura, 3 Chronological Record, 126-139 Convention of 1889, 122 Claudet, A. F. J., 29, 86 Chlorine Accelerator, 29 Collodion Process (Archer’s), 68 Collodio-Chloride Printing Process, 81 Davy, Sir H., 9 Daguerre, L. J. M., 9, 43 Daguerreotype Process, 23, 24, 25 —— Apparatus Imported, 29 Diaphanotypes, 71 Dolland, J., 4 Donkin, W. F., 120 Draper, Dr., 107 Dublin Exhibition, 205-226 Eburneum Process, 82 Elliott & Fry, 96 Eosine, &c., 109 Errors in Pictorial Backgrounds, 231 First Photographic Portrait, 107 Fizeau, M., 6, 28 Flash-light Pictures, 118 Gelatino-Bromide Experiments, 91 Globe Lens, 78 Goddard, John Frederick, 28, 79 Harrison, W. H., 87 Heliographic Process, 11, 12, 13 Heliochromy, 88 Herschel, Dr., 6 Herschel, Sir John, 94 Hillotypes, 71 Hughes, Jabez, 55, 75 Hunt, Robert, 117 International Exhibitions, 42, 77, 82, 111 Johnson, J. R., 107 Kennett, R., 96 Lambert, Leon, 98 Laroche, Sylvester, 116 Lea, Carey, 101 “Lux Graphicus” on the Wing, 273-299 Lights and Lighting, 311 Maddox, Dr. R. L., 91 Magic Photographs, 83 Mawson, John, 85 Mayall, J. E., 54 Macbeth, Norman, 120 Montreal, 51 Morgan and Kidd, 106 Newton, Sir Isaac, 3 New York, 48, 71 Niagara, 50 Niépce, J. Nicéphore, 9, 11 Niépce de St. Victor, 88 Niagara, Pictures of, 140-158 Notes on Pictures in National Gallery, 245 Orthochromatic Plates, 115 Panoramic Lens and Camera, 76 Pistolgraph, 76 Pensions to Daguerre and Niépce, 33 Philadelphia, 49 Ponton, Mungo, 22, 103 Poitevin, M., 85, 108 Porta, Baptista G., 3 Potash Bichromate, 22 Pouncy Process, 78 Pictures of the St. Lawrence, 158-169 Pinhole Camera, 117 Pizzighelli’s Platinum Printing, 118 Pictures of the Potomac, 183-196 Photography in the North, 226-231 Perspective, 237-244 Photography and the Immured Pompeiians, 303 Rambles among Studios, 196-204 Reade, Rev. J. B., 15-22, 90 Rejlander, O. G., 98 Ritter, John Wm., 5 Rumford, Count, 5 Russell, Col., 117 Sable Island, 47 Salomon, Adam, 84 Sawyer, J. R., 121 Scheele, C. W., 4, 5 Senebier, 5