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Take Photos, for InstanceAuthor(s): Aidan Rooney-CéspedesSource: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), p. 39Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20557574 .

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Fil?ocht Nua: New Poetry

TAKE PHOTOS, FOR INSTANCE

Eighteen forty-seven, December four, first Saturday. A bitter, rain-stung, corn market

day. Signor Morrosini?dandy, photographic artist, bacon and turnips with butter

lover, and big man for eating houses?who had begged to acquaint the Nobility and

Gentry of the County of Monaghan of his visit for the purpose of taking Likenesses

in Coloured Crayons, steps down from the 4.30 Bang-Up, lodges at McPhilip's hotel,

shaves, clips moustache, sideburns, and sets up procured Apparatus, Accessories,

Specimens. Miss Balfour and Miss Quigley, of the ladies boarding Academy, The Hill,

accept the visit of inspection that Signor Morrosini had respectfully solicited, and

Signor Morrosini smiles, explains that owing to the superior manner in which his

studio is fitted up, and lighted, and the excellence of his new and improved appara

tus, photographs can be taken in any weather. Pik-Nik parties, indeed, are his

Speciality. Miss Balfour agrees that Signor Morrosini's style of cartes-de-visites,

vignettes, cameos, cabinet and life-size portraits bear favorable comparison with

those produced in any house in Ireland, whereupon Signor Morrosini conveys his

confidence that all orders entrusted to him will be executed to the satisfaction of

those honoring him with their kind patronage. The Honourable Richard Westenra of

Rossmore and Major Alexander Montgomery of Bessmount have their gentlemen's

seats taken on short notice for the term of One Guinea. After a brisk walk twice

around the Diamond, Signor Morrosini repairs to Hetherington's in Back Street,

where he stands a round for Oyney the grub, leather cutter, Jim Kelly, tallow chandler

and soap boiler, and Eddie Murphy, gig and jaunting car maker, and Signor

Morrosini is very taken by how they stand in the likeness of being looked at looking in a looking glass's patina of gloom.

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