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His Father In 1826: Niepce made copies of engravings by oiling them and placing them in contact with the sensitized plate. Isidore, Niepce's son, recollected that his father in 1826 spread on a well-polished pewter plate bitumen of Judea dissolved in Dippel's oil.* On this varnish he placed the engraving to be reproduced, which had been made trans-Johann Konrad Dippel (1673-1734) a German chemist, prepared a curative oil by distilling animal bones.
lucent, and exposed the whole to the light. After a more or less long time, according to the intensity of the light, he plunged the plate in a solvent which, little by little, made the image—until then invisible—appear.
After these different operations, he placed it in more or less acidified water, for the purpose of etching it.
My father sent this plate to [the engraver Augustin Francois] Lemaitre, requesting him to be good enough to engrave the drawing still deeper. M. Lemaitre acceded very courteously to my father's request. He pulled several proofs of the portrait of Cardinal d'Amboisei
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father.
GRAHAM, gra'sm, James Robert George (1792-1861), British political leader, who led the Peelite Conservatives after .the death of Sir Robert Peel. Graham was born at Netherby, Cumberland, on June 1, 1792. In 1824 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy and estates, and from 1826 until his death he served continuously in the House of Commons, where as first lord of the admiralty in Earl Grey's Whig government (1830-1834) he established a reputation for administrative ability.
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