Group of Colliers Wifes Llansamlet Swansea 1854
John Wheeley Gough Gutch (1809 - 1862)
Category
Photographs
Date
1854
Materials
Measurements
140 mm (H)105 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 103326
Summary
A salted paper print (pasted into an album) of five women identified through a pencil annotation beneath, as 'colliers' wives' married to miners at Llansamlet near Swansea. They each wear traditional Welsh dress. Photographed in 1854 by John Wheeley Gough Gutch, a surgeon who later pursued photography. Two further photographs of other sitters are placed beneath this image on the album page.
Marks and inscriptions
"Group of Colliers Wifes Llansamlet Swansea 1854" hand written in pencil under image
Makers and roles
John Wheeley Gough Gutch (1809 - 1862), photographer