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Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
Welsh (1810-1882)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Gypsies. [Also called "Palmistry" or "The Brewis Kettle."]
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

September 6, 1856
salted paper print
15.8 x 20.6 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
GEH NEG: 33057
L74:0045:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:2

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

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] "Taken September 6, 1856 possibly oxymel negative. Exhibited at Photographic Society of London (now RPS) exhibition as No. 381 in 1857. Left to right: John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, eldest son of JDL by kettle. William DLl, 2nd son, in the tent. Emma Charlotte, 2nd daughter on basket, Caroline Traherne, related by mattage." [RM, 2000]

SUBJECT: landscape, figures in

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