PAINTINGS ON A PHOTOGRAPHIC BASE
Mervyn Ruggles
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“In the early days of daguerrotype portraiture, Queen Victoria asked the fashionable miniature painter Alfred Chalon whether he were not afraid that photography would ruin his profession, 'Ah, non, Madame', he replied in a mixture of French and English, 'photographie can't flat�re'.” Originally published in “The Women at Home”, London, vol. VIII, 1897, p. 812.
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