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Dead Game

Artist
John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Welsh, 1810–1882
Date
1854
Material
Albumen print
photographed in
Wales, Europe
Classification
Photographs
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 9 9/16 x 7 11/16 in. (24.3 x 19.5 cm)
mount: 17 7/8 x 14 13/16 in. (45.4 x 37.7 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Shop Fund
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
57:1989
NOTES
This photograph features a wide variety of textures including feathers and fur, a woven basket and loose straw, and a cloth backdrop. The clarity of these textures is a result of the use of a glass negative and the collodion process, which was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. A glass negative offered sharper and larger images than those printed from paper negatives, and the collodion solution was grainless and colorless, which allowed for high quality duplication.
- 1989
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc, New York, NY

1989 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. [1]


Notes:
[1] Invoice from Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. dated April 7, 1989 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1989.
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