A photograph of an angler sitting beside a stream, taken by John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882), in about 1855. 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.

An albumen print photograph from a collodion negative, entitled ‘Piscator’ by John Dillwyn Llewelyn, c. 1855.

This photograph of a rural scene with a fisherman sat on the river bank was one of many Llewelyn took on the rivers in his native Wales.