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Photograph album

Mary Dillwyn, early 1840s–early 1850s

The album opens with three views of Penlle'r Gaer, home of the Dillwyn Llewelyn family, and progresses to portraits of family and friends interspersed with flower and fowl studies, finishing with 'Two Welsh Country People'. The photographs as arranged in a distinct narrative order, each carefully trimmed and mounted on coloured card. The album was made for the artist's disabled niece, Susan Franklen.

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Title of artwork, date

Photograph album, early 1840s–early 1850s

Date supported

2002

Medium and material

42 salt prints & 1 albumen print mounted on paper, leather binding

Dimensions

Album: 11.1 x 8.8 cm

Grant

9165

Total cost

49165

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