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.

Provenance

Presented to Susan Franklen; by descent to Margaret Story Maskelyne; sold on behalf of the Maskelyn Family at Christie's, 2002.


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