Colour C-type print entitled 'Horticultural Show, Carn Brea' by Jem Southam, 1987. Acquired under the terms of the 1989 Sun Life Photography Awards. Horticultural Show, Carn Brea 1987
Camera lucida drawing of 'View Towards Lecco' by William Henry Fox Talbot, October 1833 Camera lucida drawing of 'View Towards Lecco' by William Henry Fox Talbot, October 1833
A photograph of a young girl holding a doll, taken by John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882), in about 1856. The subject is possibly of Elinor, one of Llewelyn's six children. The central portrait is framed with a wreath of ferns. Llewelyn took a series of botanical daguerreotypes for Kew Gardens as early as 1842. A photographic pioneer, Llewelyn was related by marriage to William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). He developed his own photographic process, the oxymel process, and was a founding member of the Photographic Society of London. Elinor
Original cabinet, used to store collection of Ellis daguerreotypes Cabinet used to store collection of Ellis daguerreotypes