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Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
Welsh (1810-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Piscator, No. 2
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June, 1856
PUBLISHER: The Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print
24.2 x 18.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEGS: 9576 21272
79:1992:0020

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Piscator, No. 2." "Photographed by J.D. Llewelyn" "And in the weedy moat, the heron fond of solitude alighted. The moping heron motionless and stiff, That on a stone as silently and stilly stood, an apparent sentinel, as if To guard the water-lily." "Thomas Hood." "Taken by the Oxymel process, June, 1856; weather dull; exposure twenty minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid. Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-three inches; diameter four inches; Diaphram half an inch."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC.

SUBJECT: animal, birds / Piscator

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