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Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
Welsh (1810-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Penllergare. Home of John Llewelyn friend of Fox Talbot
PUBLISHED TITLE: Penllergare, 1853
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

1853
salted paper print
15.9 x 21.0 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
L74:0045:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:1

INSCRIPTION: page opposite-(in pencil) "Penllergaer [sic] Home of John Llewelyn friend of Fox Talbot"

NOTES: Catalogued 9/2000, DZ. "Llewelyn was a wealthy man with many academic and practical interests, in which respect he was similar to Fox Talbot. He was exceptionally successful in his experiments with instantaneous photography, securing pictures of waves and drifting smoke in the years 1853/4; these pictures for which he was publicly known, which won prizes in the Paris Exhibition of 1855. His photographs of family and friends in the gardens around his house and on the seacoast at Caswell Bay have a beauty virtually unmatched in the entire course of British, and any other photography." [Journal of the Photographic Society of London, 1858, as quoted in --John Dillwyn Llewelyn--, p. 22] Information transcribed from slips of paper found inserted in album after its return from the Vision Exchanged exhibition. No identification as to source is known. [DW] "The Penllegaer spelling was used incorrectly later. From a collodion negative which still exists." [Richard Morris, Lleweleyn scholar, 12/ 2000]

SUBJECTS:
architecture, domestic / Penllergare
landscape, figures in

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