| Thomas Sutton A Dictionary of Photography (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1858), p.29.
Painted backgrounds in which peeps of distant scenery, bits of balustrade, columns, curtains, &c., are introduced, are decidedly in bad taste. A very light background is also in general an offence against good taste, particularly when the figure is very dark, and the outline hard and sharp. |
