Mrs D. L.

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Artist/Maker	Dillwyn Llewelyn, John (maker)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Salted paper print depicting Mrs Dillwyn Llewelyn leaning out of a window

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Categories	Images Online Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Mrs D. L. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Salted paper print from glass negative Salted Paper Photography
Brief description	Salted paper print depicting Mrs Dillwyn Llewelyn by John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, 1810-82) made in Britain in 1853
Physical description	Salted paper print depicting Mrs Dillwyn Llewelyn leaning out of a window
Gallery label	(23/7/2016-5/3/2017) John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–82) John Dillwyn Llewelyn; Mrs Dillwyn Llewelyn 1853 On the left, the pioneering Welsh photographer J.D. Llewelyn stands with his camera. He learned of the calotype, or paper negative, photographic process directly from its inventor, his cousinin- law, William Henry Fox Talbot. On the right, Llewelyn’s wife leans over a printing frame, which was used to secure a negative against sensitised paper for exposure in sunlight. Salted paper prints Museum no. PH.129, 130-1984
Object history	From Bessie Llewlyn's album, X.I
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	PH.129-1984

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Record created	November 6, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69287/mrs-d-l-photograph-dillwyn-llewelyn-john/

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