Granny, Thereza, Elinor; The Shanty
1853–56
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image: 11.1 × 9.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.) (a), oval Image: 10.4 × 13.8 cm (4 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.) (a), oval
Classification
Photographs
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 (37a, b)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1850s, Welsh photographer John Dillwyn Lelyn captured intimate family moments at his Penllergare estate with *Granny, Thereza, Elinor; The Sh* (1853–56). This salted paper print features three generations of women—likely the artist's mother-in-law "Granny," his daughter Thereza, and another relative named Elinor—posed thoughtfully outside a modest shanty, or small hut. The oval-framed images, measuring just a few inches, evoke the tender domesticity of Victorian life, blending portraiture with architecture in a single, evocative composition. Salted paper prints, one of photography'...
About the Artist
John Dillwyn Llewelyn
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 ...