We are happy to learn that Mrs. Partington has at last consented to let an artist take her daguerreotype likeness. When she sat down, and the instrument was pointed at her, she enquired anxiously “if the blessed thing would make much noise when it went off?” She was assured it would not, and the next moment her likeness was shown her. “There, I knew it!” said the old lady, “I know’d it was drawing my face—I felt it!—Why, it’s puckered my face all up, and makes me look a cemetery older.”
(Alan Griffiths, 18 June 2025) I'm indepted to Kevin Mackey for bringing this to my attention on Facebook.
