Photographic Album of Mary Dillwyn

Item date: 1840s
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 49,165
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

An album measuring 11.1 x 8.8cm containing 42 images of individuals and groups, birds and flowers. At least 17 can be attributed to Mary Dillwyn and others are probably by other members of this pioneering family of photographers. Illustrated at p.24 of AR

Item Provenance
By family descent until sold at Christies May 2002
Image from Mary Dillwyn's Llysidinam album, p.5 r. (mar00016). Image courtesy of National Library of Wales.
Image from Mary Dillwyn's Llysidinam album, p.5 r. (mar00016). Image courtesy of National Library of Wales.
Image from Mary Dillwyn's Llysidinam album, loose item mar001). Image courtesy of National Library of Wales.
Image from Mary Dillwyn's Llysidinam album, loose item mar001). Image courtesy of National Library of Wales.
Photograph taken by Mary Dillwyn in the 1840s. Image courtesy of the National Library of Wales
Photograph taken by Mary Dillwyn in the 1840s. Image courtesy of the National Library of Wales