...but record and recognition are not pictorial qualities. - Alfred Horsley Hinton

He (the photographer) has practically created a new thing out of materials gathered from nature; upon a foundation of fact he has allowed his imagination to build up an entirely fictitious scene, and the truth of the effect will depend upon how far his perceptions have been trained by studying nature at various times, so as to know how things might look under certain circumstances.

In such a picture the artist may depart from actual fact, from what actually was, so long as he does not exceed what might have been.

The texture of the printed image is of such peculiar character that neither brush or liquid paint seem capable of imitating it.