m surface tosurface with amazingskill in preserving the accepted likeness. But there can be no doubtthat the dignity of the miniature suffered indescending from character-reading to titiva-tion. Miniaturists ceased to regard their artwith the former pride. Great artists leftsmaller ones to reduce… … ideal before the miniaturist was no longer thatof a painting, but that of a daguerreotype;finally it was altogether that of a fashionablephotograph, in the production of which it seemsa retouchers specialfunction to obliterateeverything upon whichintimate revelation ofcharacter depends. GENERAL…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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