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The image shows a river scene with trees lining the banks, a rowboat moored close to the right bank, and the water fading into mist in the distance. The horizon is high, and the color palette is sepia, creating a serene and timeless quality to the image.
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The image shows a river scene with trees lining the banks, a rowboat moored close to the right bank, and the water fading into mist in the distance. The horizon is high, and the color palette is sepia, creating a serene and timeless quality to the image.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A Summer's Evening, Penllergare

John Dillwyn Llewelyn

Date
August 25, 1854
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 28.7 × 23.8 cm (11 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.) mount: 45.3 × 37.6 cm (17 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2018.5.2
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • albumen silver print
  • Landscape
  • Wales
  • Welsh
  • landscape
Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1988; NGA purchase, 2018.

Inscription

by unknown hand, below image center in black ink: A summer's evening, Penllergare.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 881014; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 1633.2

NGA object ID 212268. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.