Fitoro-Sourj'Tiiiu:.—A remarkable invention, intimately connected with photography, is now engrossing the attention of artists. The method followed by the inventor, M. Willeme, is this:—A number of simultaneous photographs of a person arc taken, and the outlines thus obtained arc enlarged or reduced at will by the pantograph. With these dittit M. Willeme produces a statue, the exact likeness of the original, in any size, and in so short a time as is hardly to be credited. Any person wanting his statue to be made is photographed in various directions, and two days later he may call for his statuette in clay. Features and drapery are represented with the greatest exactness, and, as a natural consequence of the method, the price is extremely moderate. A cast of the figure being taken in plaster, it may be reproduced any number of times, and cast in bronze if required.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1092, 29 April 1863, Page 3
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