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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3850538, member: 8267"]The enlarged portraits you refer to are probably solar enlargements, which were very often retouched and hand colored. Salted paper (using Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard’s process) proved the most suitable paper from about 1860 to the early 1880s, when the more sensitive bromide papers became available. A variety of surface textures were possible in the bromide papers, but "the most popular surface for [solar enlarged] prints was the matt surface as it could be “worked up” or coloured".</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://resources.culturalheritage.org/pmgtopics/2005-volume-eleven/11_14_Whitman.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://resources.culturalheritage.org/pmgtopics/2005-volume-eleven/11_14_Whitman.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://resources.culturalheritage.org/pmgtopics/2005-volume-eleven/11_14_Whitman.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3850538, member: 8267"]The enlarged portraits you refer to are probably solar enlargements, which were very often retouched and hand colored. Salted paper (using Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard’s process) proved the most suitable paper from about 1860 to the early 1880s, when the more sensitive bromide papers became available. A variety of surface textures were possible in the bromide papers, but "the most popular surface for [solar enlarged] prints was the matt surface as it could be “worked up” or coloured". [URL]http://resources.culturalheritage.org/pmgtopics/2005-volume-eleven/11_14_Whitman.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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