Accession Number

2023.003.005

Description

One sepia-toned studio photograph (Chenhall: photograph) of Margaret Joan Harvey (1871-1952) and her husband Berkeley Holme-Sumner (1872-1943) mounted on cream-coloured cardstock. He sitting on a stone seat and she leaning on a stone pillar beside it. He is wearing a darkly-coloured suit with a lighter coloured vest and is not wearing a hat. She is wearing a more lightly coloured dress with a short matching cape with dark embroidered trim. She has a dark ruffled lace collar. Her flat-brimmed hat is topped with netting loosely formed into flowers and other indistinct shapes. At the bottom of the print on the cardstock is embossed and gilded lettering: “Waylands BLACKHEATH”. On the verso is printed: “CHILDREN A SPECIALTY Wayland STUDIOS Rembrandt House BLACKHEATH AND AT STREATHAM ARTISTIC ENLARGEMENTS FROM THIS OR ANY OTHER PORTRAIT IN PERMANENT PHOTORAPHY ALL PORTRAITS BY INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS Marion Imp. Paris”

Narrative

This photograph was probably taken soon after the wedding of the sitters, Margaret Joan Harvey (1871-1952) and her husband Berkeley Holme-Sumner (1872-1943). The photograph was taken in Blackheath, an area in southeast London, England.

Margaret Joan Harvey was a granddaughter of Robert and Joan Olive Dunsmuir. The couple travelled to England a few hours after their wedding at Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral on February 12, 1896.

History of Use

This photograph was created in England and used by Captain Berkeley Holme-Sumner and Margaret Joan Harvey (Mrs. Holme-Sumner) in Britain until the 1950s when it became the property of their daughter, Georgiana Holme-Sumner, and then by Georgiana Holme-Sumner’s son, who donated the photograph to Craigdarroch Castle in 2023. He had been using it at his home in Scotland.

Date

circa 1896

Dimensions

17.3 x 11.7 cm

Support

Cardstock

Country of Origin

England