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Unidentified Photographer

TITLE ON OBJECT: Outside Margam Castle
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Group Portrait
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

ca. 1853
salted paper print
16.1 x 23.1 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
L74:0045:0005

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:5

INSCRIPTION: page opposite-(in pencil) "Outside Margam Castle" recto-(below image) (pencil insctiption identification of various sitters)

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] "Not by John Dillwyn Llewelyn as far as I know. Never seen it before! The figure far right might be Theodore Talbot, son of Kit Talbot." [Richard Morris, Llweelyn scholar, 12/2000]

SUBJECT: portrait, group

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