Welsh Journals

as those afterwards done on glass covered with sensitised collodium [sic], were to my mind far more artistic. Later, another improvement was the addition of oxymel to the Collodium [sic] which enabled the plates to be kept much longer than when they were dry. My Father also contrived a shutter, which fy falling rapidly over the lens of the camera, enable instantaneous pictures to be made. Somewhere about 1852 he exhibited the first instantaneous photographs at the Photographic Society's Exhibition in London, and great excitement prevailed at Penllergare when a "Post Haste" message arrived asking for fresh copies of two of his 4 instantaneous pictures, to replace those which Queen Victoria had admired so much that she insisted on carrying them off! "Remember remember the 5th of November" was one, the other was .[not mentioned]. In 1855 he won the 1st prize at the Exposition Universelle at Paris. The 4 photographs were called by him "Motion" they were 1. June blowing off steam in Tenby harbour. 2. Clouds over St Catherines Island (& Batteries) Tenby 3. A wave breaking at Caswell. 4. A ship in full sail off Caswell. At that exhibition England (by his photos) was placed 1st in order of merit, Austria 2nd, France 3r The medal he won is at Penllergare (1923) .About 1855 he (my father) made a photo of the moon, and as moon light requires much longer exposure it was my business to keep the Telescope moving steadily as there was no clockwork action. That photograph was one of the first ever made of the moon. In 1869 a photograph now historical and described as being "at a time when the art of photography was in its infancy" was made by Sir David Gill, and is now at the Royal Astronomical Society London. Many of the 'Thereza' images in the album exist in a couple of small albums still in family ownership where they are actually credited to her. Some of the negatives also exist in the Llewelyn archive in the National Museums and Galleries of Wales archives at Nantgarw. Interestingly this archive probably passed from her father John to Thereza as many of the boxes are inscribed in her writing as well as her father's. As for the ascribed dates for the album, I believe that it was at least compiled in 1856, or later, when Thereza was given her stereo camera. One of the unaccredited images, 'Water Lilies' also exists as a stereo so could not possibly have been taken earlier. That does not mean that other images are not of an earlier date, but that the album could not have been compiled until then. None of this in any way removes the special attention that this album attracted from the many bidders and caused it to far exceed the estimated