id: 153720 accession number: 1987.29 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.29 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:01.255000 Rocks at Livermead near Torquay (England), c. 1852. Attributed to John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, 1810–1882). Salted paper print from calotype negative; image: 28.5 x 21.4 cm (11 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1987.29 title: Rocks at Livermead near Torquay (England) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1852 creation date earliest: 1847 creation date latest: 1857 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: salted paper print from calotype negative department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, 1810–1882) - artist John Dillwyn Llewelyn British, b. Wales, 1810-1882 Born in Swansea as John Dillwyn, Llewelyn took the surname of his maternal grandfather when he came of age and began to manage the family's estate. He was presumably introduced to photography through his wife, Emma Talbot, a cousin of William Henry Fox Talbot. The son of a member of Parliament, Llewelyn was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Linnaean Society of London, as well as a member of the Photographic Exchange Club and the Amateur Photographic Association. The family's estate, Penllergare, in Glamorganshire, South Wales, was already alive with Victorian pursuits such as astronomy, botany, and art, and became a key center of important amateur photography work in Britain. The Llewelyns' circle included a host of excellent amateurs, including their daughter Thereza, her husband, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, James Knight, the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones, Jr., and Philip Henry Delamotte. Llewelyn himself developed a distinctive, low-key, almost domestic style, and is also known for inventing the oxymel process, a "dry" collodion method that extended the field life of wet plate negatives. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 28.5 x 21.4 cm (11 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Rocks at Livermead / Torquay" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 67, no. 67.', 'opening_date': '1988-02-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, June 29 - August 26, 1990: "The World Seen Anew: English and French Photographs of the 1850\'s," Gallery D, no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1990-06-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 224 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.29/1987.29_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.29/1987.29_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.29/1987.29_full.tif