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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 148. 



" Age all things brings — all things bears hence with it. 

 All things have time, and time all things fit." 



" Omnia fert aetas secum, aufert omnia secinn. 

 Omnia tempus habent, omnia tempus habet." 



A HARD FATHER. 



" A sparing father is most liberall 

 To his son, for, dying, he dotli leave him all." 



DURUS PATER. 



" In gnatum quo, dure pareno, es parcior, hoc es 

 Largior, huic moriens omnia namque dabis." 



virtue's COMPLAINT. 



" Rare's love of Love, love of Virtue's rare : 

 Price is now priz'd, and honours honour'd are : 

 niches are prostitute ; coyn money byes [sJc] ; 

 And Virtue's vile, she must her own worth prize." 



VIRTUTIS QUERISIONIA. 



" Rarus amoris Amor, Virtutis nuUus amator. 

 In pretio pretium nunc in honore honor est. 

 Divitia' prostraiit [sic] emiturque pecunia luimmis, 

 Et sua jam Virtus premia vilis emit." 



VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS. 



" For Injur'd Virtue, trampled on, revives ; 

 More beauteous seems, and by oppression thrives ! 

 Custom it is, that all the world to sl.ivery brings, 

 And the dull excuse for doing silly tilings. 

 Custom, which sometimes Wisdom overrules. 

 And serves instead of Reason to the iFools." 



. J. R. R. 



THE APPLICATION OF PHOTOGBAPHT TO AE- 

 CH.iEOI.OGY. 



• The present moment, when Mr. Fox Talbot in- 

 vites the emulation and competition of our artists 

 by presenting all his patents for improvements in 

 photography to the public, " with the exception of 

 the application of the invention to the taking of 

 Photographic Portraits for Sale," appears to be a 

 peculiarly fitting time for calling the attention of all 

 persons interested in antiquarian pursuits (and who 

 have not the able pencil of an Albert Way) to 

 some of the modes in which the *f photographic 

 process may be applied in furtherance of their 

 favourite studies. 



Such studies are at once the least remunerative 

 and the most expensive ; for in many of the most 

 important branches of archaeology, illustrations 

 and drawings become essential, while the cost of 

 money and time is often too great to admit of 

 their being procured. But this wonderful dis- 

 coveiy, by which any object, — from a village church 

 to the crumbling monuments and mouldering 

 brasses within it, — a Druidical remain, or a scene 



made memorable by historical passages, — r.t the 

 bidding of the photographist — 



" Starts into light and makes the lighter start," 



with a truthfulness which the most skilful artist 

 would in vain attempt to rival, enables the an- 

 tiquary to fill his portfolio at small expense and 

 with little labour. What must Mr. Dawson 

 Turner's Illustrations of his native county liave 

 cost him, albeit much of the labour was labour of 

 love from the gifted members of his own fatuily. 

 By means of photography, a few pounds*, com- 

 bined with some small experience, Avould enable 

 each county historian to be his own artist, and the 

 printer of the views which he has himself taken ; 

 for it must be remembered that photogra[)hic 

 sketches may be multiplied by printing with very 

 little trouble. 



There is another class of antiquaries and lovers 

 of art by whom this marvellous invention may 

 be applied with great success, — I mean our col- 

 lectors who illustrate Pennant, Granger, &c. The 

 manner in which large portraits f or views may 

 be reduced, and rare ones copied and printed, by 

 some of the various processes now in use, will en- 

 able collectors at once to spare their purses and 

 enrich their collections. I have now before me a 

 printed copy of a portrait (the original taken cer- 

 tainly from a living subject), the work of an 

 amateur, which as a work of art deserves a place 

 in any portfolio. I have had, too, very recently, 

 an opportunity of inspecting some beautiful and 

 most interesting photographic views of Pajstum ; 

 and as I write I have beside me a photograph of 

 Roman remains most admirably represented. 



It is of course obvious that photography is appli- 

 cable to many other objects than those to which 

 I have alluded. The purpose of this communica- 

 tion is simply to direct the attention of antiquaries 

 more generally to a matter which, if properly taken 

 up by them, must lead to the preservation of many 

 a pictorial record which will be invaluable to those 

 who come after us. And I trust that the sug- 

 gestion of the subject in " N. & Q." may be the 

 means of procuring for those inclined to practise 

 the art many useful hints from amateurs far better 

 skilled in it than the present writer. 



William J. Thoms. 



P.S. — Is it too much to suggest to all who may 

 take up the practice, what good service they may 



* I have the authority of Mr. J. B. Hockin — who 

 announced in the Athencenm of the 14th instant a great 

 improvement in the manufacture of collodion, and a 

 reduction in its cost — that the amateur may be fur- 

 nished with a very complete set of apparatus, chemicals, 

 &c., for ten pounds. 



•j- The Granger or Clarendon illustrator may thus 

 place in his illustrated volumes copies of portraits 

 which have never been engraved. 



