According to family lore, Llewelyn photographed his wife Emma each year on her birthday, September 23, 1855. From a picnic point of view, it’s fortuitous because, to my knowledge, this is the first photograph ever of a picnic.
*Llewelyn was a pioneer photographer and inventor. This photograph of an afternoon September 1855 shows them on Goppa Hill, Swansea.
Featured Image: Picnicking has not changed since 1855
See John Dillwyn Llewelyn Collection at Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum Wales