The Upper Falls, Penllergare Valley Woods
John Dillwyn Llewelyn
c. 1852
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.7 × 16.9 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.) mount: 45.5 × 37.7 cm (17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation
Accession Number
2018.7.31
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 ...