Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales (c. 1860): Art, History and Details

Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales (c. 1860) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Lloyd (British, 1811–1865).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This touching portrait contrasting age and youth was taken by amateur photographer John Lloyd. It shows two of the servants at his home, Rhagatt Hall, in Wales, which was built by an ancestor around 1739.

Object facts

• Title: Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales
• Date: c. 1860
• Creator attribution: John Lloyd (British, 1811–1865)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 13.6 x 10.7 cm (5 3/8 x 4 3/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1987.22

A detail from the museum

John Lloyd did not have a formal career but was praised by his neighbors as a humorous poet, excellent painter, and skilled (amateur) photographer.

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.