© National Library of Wales
Photograph album
Artist: Mary Dillwyn (1816 - 1906)
Location: National Library of Wales
Date: early 1840s - early 1850s
Materials: 42 salt prints & 1 albumen print mounted on paper, leather binding
Dimensions: album: 11.1 x 8.8cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,165 (Total: £49,165)
Vendor: Through Christie's
Review number: 5107 (2002)
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Provenance:
Presented to Susan Franklen; by descent to Margaret Story Maskelyne; sold on behalf of the Maskelyn Family at Christie's, 2002.
Description:
The album opens with three views of Penlle'r Gaer, home of the Dillwyn Llewelyn family, and progresses to portraits of family and friends interspersed with flower and fowl studies, finishing with 'Two Welsh Country People'. The photographs as arranged in a distinct narrative order, each carefully trimmed and mounted on coloured card. The album was made for the artist's disabled niece, Susan Franklen.
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