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  • Mary Dillwyn (1816-1906) - Two Studies of Domestic Fowl, late 1840s or early 1850s
    Jun. 06, 2014

    Mary Dillwyn (1816-1906) - Two Studies of Domestic Fowl, late 1840s or early 1850s

    Est: £600 - £800

    Two salt prints, corners trimmed, mounted on a folio album leaf together with a pale salt print by John Dillwyn Llewelyn [ Bittern, shot at Penllergare ] and (pasted over a blank portion of the Bittern) an albumen print of a memorial tablet to John Henry Vivian (d.1855), Swansea M.P, 7.2 x 8.3 cm (2 7/8 x 3 ¼ in) and 6.7 x 9 cm (2 5/8 x 3 ½ in) Mary Dillwyn of Penllergare, Swansea, was the youngest sister of John Dillwyn Llewelyn, and almost certainly the first woman photographer in Wales. Another example of the two White Poland hens is present in one of the Llewelyn albums at Swansea Museum (SWASM:SM 1987.844.41). The second study appears to be unrecorded although one of the two Mary Dillwyn albums in the National Library of Wales includes several comparable subjects of similar size.

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  • MARY DILLWYN (1816-1906)
    May. 10, 2002

    MARY DILLWYN (1816-1906)

    Est: $13,140 - $17,520

    Miniature album of family portraits, still-life and studies of fowl Album of 42 salt prints and one albumen print. 1840s-early 50s. Varying sizes from 2 3/8 x 13/4in. (6 x 4.5cm.) to 4 x 3 1/8in. (10.1 x 7.9cm.) or the reverse. One titled in pencil on the verso; 17 initialled M.D. and 36 titled in ink on the mount. 9 trimmed oval, one with arched top and 29 with clipped corners. Each mounted one-per-page on coloured paper; the albumen print loosely inserted. Inscribed Susan M... Franklen - Clemenstone in ink on front free endpaper. Dark blue leather, gilt, g.e. Album size: 4 3/8 x 31/2in. (11.1 x 8.8cm.) PROVENANCE Margaret Story Maskelyne; by descent to the present owners. NOTES Varied subjects include 3 views of the Llewelyn country home at Penllergare, 13 portraits, 2 outdoor scenes, 18 still-life subjects with flowers and 6 fowl studies. Penllergare images include the conservatory, as well as the observatory, for which John Dillwyn Llewelyn's daughter Thereza Mary laid the foundation stone in 1846. Family portraits include young William Mansel Llewelyn and his sisters Elinor Amy, Lucy and Emma Charlotte Llewelyn, as well as Thereza Mary. Other portraits include Graham, Hussey and Ernest Vivian, Dulcie and Caroline Eden and Cathinka Smith. Also includes two outdoor scenes of family members making a snowman. A list of titles is available upon request. Mary Dillwyn was the youngest sister of John Dillwyn Llewelyn who married Emma Thomasina Talbot, a first cousin of William Henry Fox Talbot. Along with her brother, sister-in-law and niece Thereza Mary, Mary Dillwyn took an active interest in photography. For further information regarding the Llewelyn, Maskelyne and Talbot families, please refer to Kraus, Sun Pictures, Catalogue Two and Morris, John Dillwyn Llewelyn 1810-1882.

    Christie's
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