This section is from the book "Photographics: A Series Of Lessons", by Edward L. Wilson. Also available from Amazon: Wilson's Photographics: A Series Of Lessons/a>.
Portrait of the Author,....................Frontispiece
Portraits of Miss Adelaide Detchon (eleven), facing,........ .....76
Photoengravings And Wood - Cuts.
Pace
Line Points,..........25
Diminution,.........26, 86
Perspective,..........
Point of Sight,.......27, 28, 29
Lines of the Face,.......30, 81
Aerial Perspective.........86
Marine View, by Willem Van de Velde,. 86
Varieties of Lines.........40
Angular Composition, . . 42, 43, 44, 45, 46
The Flight of Eneas,.......42
Mignard's Daughter, by Pierre Mignard, 43 The Harvest Wagon,by Philipp Wouwer- mann,..........44
Master Lambton,by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 45 Examples of Angular Composition (six), 46 Pyramidal Composition, 48, 40, 50, 51, 52, 53 The Expulsion of Hagar, by G. Flink, . 48 Family Devotion, by Jean Baptiste Greuze, 49 The Empty Jug, by A. Van Ostade, . . 50 A Surgical Operation, by Adrian Brouwer, 61
Studio of Adrian Van Ostade, .... 62
The Goat and the Faun....... 62
Examples of Pyramidal Composition
(six)............ 53
Circular Composition........ 66
Drawing, by Raphael,....... 66
The Soldier and the Laughing Girl, by J.
Van der Meer........ 60
Study in Light and Shade...... 60
Portrait of Rembrandt, by Himself, . . 68 Orpin, the Parish Clerk,by Thomas Gainsborough..........
Study in Lighting,........ 66
The Syndic of the Cloth - Mongers, by
Rembrandt,........ 70
Rembrandt Lighting........ 70
The Grand Parade,....... 74
Study in Lines and Composition. ... 74
The Portrait Camera,....... 78
The View Camera,........ 78
The '76 Stereoscopic Camera..... 79
Application of the Diaphragm, ... 87
The Tanks for the Dark-room, ... 90
Interior of the Dark-room, .... 91
Ventilation of the Dark-room, ... 92
Collodionizing the Plate,..... 112
Development of the Image..... 113
Retouching Machine Work, .... 152 Glass Studio Construction, 155,156,161,
162, 164, 165, 166
The Curved Glass Studio,..... 157
Curtains for the Studio,...... 159
Interior of the Glass Studio, .... 160
Awning-frame for the Skylight, . . . 163
Section of a Skylight,...... 164
Elevation of a Skylight,..... 165
Details of Glass Studio Construction, . 166
Hull's Background Frame,..... 176
Liesegang's Background Wagon,. . . 176
The Printing-room,....... 189
Centennial Printing-room,..... 190
Young's Winter Printing-room, . . . 191
Sensitizing the Paper,...... 197
Clips for Suspending Paper..... 198
Drying-room for Paper,...... 198
The Fuming-box,........ 199
Drying-rack for Prints....... 208
A Printer's Washing-room,..... 208
Stereoscopic Negative Guide, .... 209
Frame for Printing on Wood, .... 215
Waymouth's Vignette Paper, .... 230
Singhi's Vignette Attachment,. . . . 238
Robinson's Print Trimmers..... 230
View Included by any Lens, .... 243 American Optical Company's Dry-plate
Apparatus,........ 243
On the Shores of the River Neuse, by
Jan Van Goyen........ 256
Page
Model Landscape View,..... 255
The Ancient Out-door Worker, . . . 262
The Modern Out-door Worker, ... 262
Hot-water Cabinet for Emulsion Work, 264
Apparatus for Boiling Emulsion, . . . 265
Apparatus for Mixing Emulsion, . . . 266
Apparatus for Dividing Emulsion, . . 267
Apparatus for Breaking Emulsion, . . 268
Apparatus for Cooling Emulsion,. . . 268
Apparatus for Filtering Emulsion, . 268, 269
Apparatus for Drying Emulsion Plates, . 272
Drying-cupboard for Emulsion, . . . 273
Apparatus for Emulsion Developer, . . 280
Carbutt's Developing Cruet, .... 284 American Optical Company's Dry-plate
Changing-box,......294, 295
Eastman's Lamp for Emulsion Work, . 294 American Optical Company's Double
Emulsion Holder,...... 297
Apparatus for Enlarging Card Negatives, 305. Apparatus for Enlarging by Artificial
Light, . . .......308, 309
Piatt's Apparatus for Tracing Enlargements, .......... 309
Apparatus for Making Lantern Slides, . 310 Apparatus for Drying Albumen Transparencies, ......... 313
Apparatus for Reversing the Negative, . 316
Apparatus for Filtering Gelatin, . . . 322
Drying-box for Phototype Plates, . . 323
Drying-cupboard for Phototype Plates, . 323
Drying-oven for Phototype Plates, . . 326
Washing-tank for Phototype Plates, . . 327 Drying-box for Varnished Phototype
Plates,.......... 331
Apparatus for Making Collodion Transfers,........... 334
Cylinder for Converting Silver Chloride, 341

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