CWatters wrote: > "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message > news:QLydnWBoNI-rvBXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@rcn.net... > >>I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it >>in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my >>hard-copy books soooo: >> >>I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film >>photographs to look like charcoal drawings. >> >>Thanks! >> >>Cheryl > > > Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s but > after 1920 it was less popular. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring > > Flippit. I guess that explains why I didn't keep careful track of the exchange. I have a wall-sized portrait where the hair has been charcoaled in. The woman died in either 1899 or 1885, and I was hoping the date of popularity would help pick one. [For clarity: the woman is the wife-of; he had two wives of the same first name, one died in 1885, one in 1899; I'd sort of like to know which one we have a picture of.] Cheryl

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:IdGdncaVCMPHfRHanZ2dnUVZ_tninZ2d@rcn.net... > CWatters wrote: > >> "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message >> news:QLydnWBoNI-rvBXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@rcn.net... >> >>>I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it >>>in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my >>>hard-copy books soooo: >>> >>>I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film >>>photographs to look like charcoal drawings. >>> >>>Thanks! >>> >>>Cheryl >> >> >> Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s >> but >> after 1920 it was less popular. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring >> >> > > > Flippit. I guess that explains why I didn't keep careful track of the > exchange. > > I have a wall-sized portrait where the hair has been charcoaled in. The > woman died in either 1899 or 1885, and I was hoping the date of popularity > would help pick one. > > [For clarity: the woman is the wife-of; he had two wives of the same first > name, one died in 1885, one in 1899; I'd sort of like to know which one we > have a picture of.] > > Cheryl I've got a pair of framed sepia-toned portraits of (non-direct) relatives that have the fine detail of photographs, but also have an airbrushed charcoal-retouched appearance. They are large 16" x 20" and are on heavy cardboard. Father (1825-1886) and son (1850 - ), their apparent ages in the portraits would suggest a time period in the 1870's (the son was married in 1874), but of course any enhancement work could have been done well after that. The current owner of the original house in Maine in which they lived found the two portraits in the attic and gave them to me. Bruce