photograph

Artwork

Accession Number
2012.007.001.032
Description
Black and white photograph of two men. The man in the foreground has a pipe in his mouth and the man in the background is gesturing as if to check his wristwatch. The right side of the photograph is over exposed but it is just possible to make out the figure of a woman standing. The people are standing on a lawn and in the background, a net is hung between two posts, possibly for tennis. The background also shows that the lawn is encompassed by a sloped bank.
Narrative
The two men in this photograph are not yet identified, though the man on the left could be Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson. The sloped lawn in the background suggests that the location for this photograph could be Dallam Tower, the home of Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson, near Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England. Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson is the brother-in-law of Laura Mary (Maye) Dunsmuir (Mrs. Arthur Bromley).

The photograph dates from about 1905 and is mounted in a brown suede leather album that documents the life and times of the James and Laura Dunsmuir family from about 1895 onward. The album includes scenes at their house Burleith on Victoria's Gorge Waterway, various coastal locales north of Victoria, and parts of the United Kingdom.
 
History of Use
This photograph was taken in about 1905 and placed in an album created by the James and Laura Dunsmuir family at Burleith, their home on Victoria's Gorge Waterway. In 1906 it was probably taken by the family to Victoria's Government House where they lived while James served as British Columbia's eighth Lieutenant Governor. From there it was taken to the family's new house, Hatley Park, in 1910.

Sometime after Laura Miller Dunsmuir's death in 1937, the album became the property of Dola Frances Dunsmuir (also known as Mrs. Dola Cavendish) and was kept at her house Dolaura in Colwood, B.C. After hear death, the album was owned by her sister Kathleen's daughter, Judith Humphreys (also known as Mrs. Judith Joy). Her daughter donated the album to Craigdarroch Castle in 2012.
Date
circa 1905
Dimensions
7.7 x 8.2 cm
Support
Paper, Photographic paper
Country of Origin
England

Related people/businesses/organizations
Dola Frances Dunsmuir (owner)
Judith Marie Kathleen Humphreys (owner)
Kathleen Euphemia "Kathleen" Dunsmuir (owner)
James Dunsmuir (owner)
Laura Miller Dunsmuir (nee Surles) (owner)
Related Associations
Burleith (was used in)
Government House (Victoria, B.C.) (was used in)
Hatley Park (was used in)
Dolaura (house) (was used in)