[Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn with Her Microscope]
John Dillwyn Llewelyn
ca. 1854
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Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
23.5 x 18.7 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981
Accession Number
1981.1229.5
Tags
SciencePortraitsWomenMicroscopes
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 ...