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Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
Welsh (1810-1882)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Cave at Duinraven [also titled "Inside Great Cave Dunraven"]
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

ca. 1853
salted paper print
16.5 x 21.1 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
L74:0045:0010

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:10

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] "Cave at Dunraven, also titled 'Inside Great Cave Dunraven' on south Wales coastline. Possibly No. 582 Photographic Society of London exhibition 1854 and also No. 315 Dundee exhibiton 1854. Calotype c. 1852. Said to be the first photograph taken inside a cave." [Richard Morris, Llewelyn scholar, 12/2000]

SUBJECT: landscape, rocky

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