A physiognotrace is an instrument, designed to trace a person's physiognomy to make semi-automated portrait aquatints. Invented in France in 1783–1784...
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History of photography (section Physiognotrace)
described in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. A physiognotrace is an instrument, designed to support semi-automated portrait. It was...
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taxidermy. In 1802, John Isaac Hawkins patented the second official physiognotrace, a mechanical drawing device, and partnered with Peale to market it...
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François Joseph Westermann Physiognotrace portrait by Gilles-Louis Chrétien Born 5 September 1751 (1751-09-05) Molsheim, France Died 5 April 1794 (1794-04-06)...
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Portrait of Robespierre (1792) by Jean-Baptist Fouquet. By using a physiognotrace a "grand trait" was produced within a few minutes. This life-size drawing...
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1801 letter to Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Foundation: Henry Dearborn (Physiognotrace) Wheelan, 2005, p. 128 Stewart, 2011 pp. 148-149 Stewart, 2011, p. 111...
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A physiognotrace made by Jean Simon Fournier around 1800...
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himself; but the instrument was poor in tone. Patented (1802) an improved physiognotrace, a device by which one could quickly produce a silhouette portrait (i...
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about two years beginning in 1803, Peale toured Virginia with the "physiognotrace", a profile making machine, with which he was briefly successful. By...
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Senate, 25 March 1802 Thomas Jefferson Foundation: Henry Dearborn (Physiognotrace) Thomas Jefferson Foundation: West Point Ambrose, 1966, p. 22 Lookingbill...
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painting. After showing skill at silhouette-making, Williams was given a physiognotrace machine to make silhouettes, and he continued to work at Peale's museum...
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many had to travel in order to find customers. Sharples often used a physiognotrace, a mechanical drawing aid, to record an exact profile, which he kept...
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produced many portraits, perhaps as many as 800 works. He utilized the physiognotrace technique. He kept a studio in Boston c. 1813 and associated with other...
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During this period he created numerous portraits, often using the physiognotrace technique, invented in 1786 by Gilles-Louis Chretien. Portrait subjects...
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