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Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
Welsh (1810-1882)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Singleton Church. Now called Sketty Church. 1852. Calotype.
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographs"

1852
salted paper print
20.9 x 16.5 cm.
Extended loan from Kodak Ltd.
L74:0045:0011

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3522:11

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] "Singleton Church. Calotype, original negative exists and shows that there was a tree on the right hand side that hasbeen painted out on the negative!" [Richard Morris, Llewelyn scholar, 12/2000]

SUBJECT: architecture, church / Singleton Church

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