...that allows him to profit by bringing out his sitters' inner selves: "There is a wonderful insight in heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give...would ever venture upon, even could he detect it" (n: 91). Asa daguerreotypist, Holgrave continues the mesmeric tradition of his Maule ancestors, whose...

...the very sufficient reason, I fancy, is, because the originals are so. There is a wonderful insight in Heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give...is, at least, no flattery in my humble line of art. Now, here is a likeness which I have taken over and over again, and still with no better result. Yet...

...makes such a claim for the technology in The House of the Seven Gables when he assures Phoebe that, "while we give it credit only for depicting the merest...with a truth that no painter would ever venture upon" (2: 91). Daguerreotypy stopped time, as the early versions of the technology required the subject to...

...Seven Gables, where Holgrave the daguerreotypist explains to Phoebe: "There is a wonderful insight in heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give...character with a truth that no painter would ever venture on, even could he detect it."58 This unique revelatory capacity of the daguerreotype afforded it an...

...wonderful insight in heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give it credit for depicting only the merest surface, it actually brings out the secret...is, at least, no flattery in my humble line of art. Now, here is a likeness which I have taken over and over again, and still with no better result. Yet...

...1839. Required to hold his pose for about thirty seconds, the judge dropped his benign mask to reveal "a truth that no painter would ever venture upon, even could he detect it." As Holgrave says, "Here we have the man, sly, subtle, hard, imperious, and withal, cold as ice." Presumably,...