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the same, another photograph is traced, another profile cut, and so on until 
the whole four-and-twenty photographs are profiled out, and a rough but 
even now strikingly truthful statuette in clay stands before us. (See cut.) 
But in this stage of its progress it must obviously be very far from 
perfect. So far, the process only gives us the exact proportions of the 
relative parts, the broad and general masses as it were, leaving the finer 
details and more refined and subtle contours for the artist’s finishing hand, 
without which it would be simply useless. It is not, as some of our con- 
temporaries would lead their readers to suppose, immediately ready for 
being converted into a mould from which any number of copies may be 
taken ; on the contrary, it must then pass into the sculptor’s hands, and 
receive no small share of artistic labour before it can be so used. Four- 
and-twenty such outlines as can be traced with a fine point if placed in 
close contact, would cover a very small part of the surface which the 
statuette, bust, or whatever it may be, represents ; and consequently there 
must be a very large quantity of surface really although not apparently 
unrepresented by the four-and-twenty photographs, and consequently by 
the four-and-twenty profiles cut in the soft clay. M. Claudet, we believe, 
