Punch,  12 (1847), 264.

Dissolving Portraits

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Photography, Representation


    Suggests that the motto for photographic portraits should be 'Light come, light go', owing to their inability to preserve images for longer than about a month.



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