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Unidentified Photographer

TITLE ON OBJECT: Possibly one of Fox Talbots early efforts
PUBLISHED TITLE: Possibly Theodore Talbot. Son of C.R.M. Talbot.
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

ca. 1853
salted paper print
11.1 x 8.8 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
L74:0045:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:9

INSCRIPTION: page opposite-(in pencil) "Possibly one of Fox Talbots early efforts"

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] "Photographer unknown. Does not look like a Llewelyn image. Possibly Theodore Talbot, son of CRM Talbot." [Richard Morris, Llewelyn scholar 12/2000]

SUBJECT: portrait, male

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