The Photographic art-journal . on, orby floating the leaded surface on the solu-tion. It is removed after*a minute or twoand lightly dried with blotting-paper. Thepaper now contains iodide of lead and pro-to-nitrate of iron : while fctill moist it isrendered sensitive by a solution of nitrateof silver (100 grains to announce of water)and placed in the camera. After the or-dinary exposure it may be removed to adark room ; if the image is not already de-veloped, it wi 1 be found speedily to appearin great sharpness wihout any further ap-plication. It may then be fixed with thehyposulphite of sod
The Photographic art-journal . on, orby floating the leaded surface on the solu-tion. It is removed after*a minute or twoand lightly dried with blotting-paper. Thepaper now contains iodide of lead and pro-to-nitrate of iron : while fctill moist it isrendered sensitive by a solution of nitrateof silver (100 grains to announce of water)and placed in the camera. After the or-dinary exposure it may be removed to adark room ; if the image is not already de-veloped, it wi 1 be found speedily to appearin great sharpness wihout any further ap-plication. It may then be fixed with thehyposulphite of soda in the usual manner. R. Hunt. FINE ART ITEMSo AMERICAN ARTISTS IN ROME. E take from a recent! letter of Grace Green-woods to The NationalEra the following ac-count of what the Ame-• rican Artists who havebeen in Rome this win-ter are doing in the way of sculp-ture and painting: Undoubtedly the most interest-\JC m% an(^ imP0ltant work of art now<w being executed in Rome, (to Ame-ricans, at leastj) is the Washington Monu-. ment, by Mr. Crawford, ordered, to herhonor, by Virginia, and destined to be thechief ornament and pride of her handsomecapitol. The entire hight of the monu-ment is to be sixty feet. This includes theequestrian statue of Washington—sixteenfeet in hio-ht. Below this which is to standon a square pedestal, sculptured with someadmirable hassi relzevi, are ranged thestatues of six of Virginias noblest sons—Marshall, Mason, Allen, Lee, Jefferson,and Patrick Henry. These figures are tobe twelve feet in hight. On the lowerrange of steps surrounding the monument, 1833. The Photographic Art-Journal. 227 are to be placed six eagles, five feet inhight. The only figures now finished, are thestatues of Patrick Henry and Jefferson,and these are surely remarkable exhibi-tions of power—absolute triumphs of geni-us. Henry is represented in the lofty pas-sion of his fervid and majestic eloquence—in the hight of that grand outburst offreedom and patriotism which el
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