| Mrs. Fletcher Mrs. Fletcher, Professor and Teacher of the Photogenic Art 1841, 16 September Newspaper advert Private collection of Rose Teanby LL/97890 September 16, 1841, The Montreal (Canada). Transcript as quoted in, Canadian Women's Studies, vol. 2, no. 3 (1980), p. 7
Republished in: Peter Palmquist, Camera Fiends and Kodak Girls, p. 11
MRS. FLETCHER,
PROFESSOR AND TEACHER OF THE
PHOTOGENIC ART.
RESPECTFULLY announces that she is prepar-
ed to execute Daguerreotype Miniatures in a
style unsurpassed by any American or European ar-
tist. Those who have never enjoyed an opportunity
of examining the Photogenic process, or a specimen
of the art, cannot form an adequate idea of the ex-
treme perfection, beauty, and wonderful minuteness
of the
DAGUERREOTYPE PICTURES
These are truly "the pencillings of nature," the
production of minutes or seconds, and as perfect as
the imagination can conceive. As the object looks
at the moment it is taken, so is the representation.
The Plate, a blank void, becomes filled up with all
the fairy lines and graceful symmetry of a picture,
more perfect than the most exquisite designed engra-
ving affording another beautiful example that the art
of man cannot be compared to the works of nature
and of nature's God.
Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call, and exa-
mine specimens of the art, next door to the Union
Bank, Place d' Armes, where Mrs. F. is constantly in
attendance.
Sept. 16, 1841.
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