Elinor

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.

A salt print photograph of a young girl holding a doll, entitled ‘Elinor’, taken by John Dillwyn Llewelyn, in about 1856.

The girl in the photograph is Elinor Amy Dillwyn Llewelyn (1844-1887), one of Llewelyn's daughters. The original negative of Elinor and her doll was taken in 1853, this print has an added frame of ferns.