TRAHERNE-TALBOT-DILLWYN-NICHOLL FAMILIES


Three albums of watercolours (including many scenes of the Alps and Wales) and photographs (including views in Russia and Canada), approximately 150 watercolours (225 x 330mm., and smaller) and 150 gelatin silver prints (most approximately 100 x 80mm., or similar), mostly pasted in and captioned, some signed, half morocco, 2 with covers detached, various sizes, [c.1876-1905]; together with 2 albums containing approximately 150 photographic carte-de-visite portraits of the Talbot and Nicholl extended families and associates (including the pioneering photographers John Dillwyn Llewellyn, and Henry Fox Talbot holding a camera), the majority of sitters identified in ink captions (5)
|Albums relating to a number of expeditions undertaken in Switzerland, Russia and Canada. Includes approximately 40 accomplished watercolour views of the Alps and the glaciers in particular, attributed to Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn (1814-1892), member of the Geological Society and friend of Henry de la Beche. Included are a further 13 watercolours of Alpine flowers. Welsh scenes include three views in the Penllegare Valley (near Swansea, home of Lewis' brother the photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn), Cader Idris, Llandaff, Brecon, Llandrindod, and a boating scene "after a painting by Calvert Jones". A later album includes good groups of photographs including a group of approximately 60 relating to explorations made by Mary De La Beche Nicholl (1839-1922) between 1900 and 1905 to Canada - Emerald Lake and Yoho Valley, Mount Assiniboine, and elsewhere in British Columbia, including Mary Nicholl climbing up and on the summit of Mt. Afton; Ashnola and the Similkameen Valley (2 of Stoney Indian groups; bear hunting and a series of photographs by James Simpson recording "a trapper's winter work", and a 12-page manuscript account of a trip "from the Ashnola to Barron"). A group of approximately 15 unusual images depict coal mines, factories, local villages, R.M.D. Nicholl with his cook and servant, and forms of transport in Kadiefka, Russia.Provenance: By descent to the present owner.