Oakley Cottage
1853–56
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 16.1 × 20.8 cm (6 5/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
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 (57)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the tranquil world of *Oakley Cottage*, a from 1853–56 by Dillwyn Llewelyn a pioneering Welsh photographer active in the dawn of photography. This intimate albumen silver print (16.1 × 20.8 cm) captures a rural scene, featuring a charming cottage amid men, horses, and carriages—evoking the rhythms of mid-19th-century British life. Llewelyn part of an influential circle of early photographers including his daughter Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, mastered techniques like paper negatives to document landscapes and daily vignettes. The albumen silver process, perfected in the 1840s by Talbot...
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 ...