[Emma Charlotte Dillwyn Llewelyn's Album]
![[Emma Charlotte Dillwyn Llewelyn's Album] by John Dillwyn Llewelyn|Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn|Jane Martha St. John|James Knight|Miss Bush|Peter Wickens Fry|M.D.](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/emma-charlotte-dillwyn-llewelyns-album-283076.webp)
Medium
128 salted paper prints and albumen silver prints from paper and glass negatives
Dimensions
28.8 × 22.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.382 (1–85)
About the Artist
John Dillwyn Llewelyn|Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn|Jane Martha St. John|James Knight|Miss Bush|Peter Wickens Fry|M.D.
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882) was a pioneering Welsh photographer and botanist whose innovative images captured the dramatic landscapes of his Penllergare estate and the Welsh coast. Born on 12 January 1810 in Swansea as the eldest son of botanist Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Mary Dillwyn, he inherited the Penllergare estate from his maternal grandfather, Colonel John Llewelyn, upon coming of age ...