Object details
Object number
ARC.003941
Creator(s)
Title
Mrs. Asquith's Party with Mrs. Charles G. Loring, Mrs. Ronald Lyman, Mrs. William James, Jr. [Alice Runnells] and Mrs. Charles Hopkinson
Date
1921
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
12.7 x 9.1 cm (5 x 3 9/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed and dated in pencil (lower right): Holton 1921
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top): Mrs. Asquith's party
Provenance
Photograph arranged by Miss Frances G. Curtis for Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Probably a gift from Alice Runnells James (1884-1957) to Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Commentary
This group portrait depicts novelist Henry James’s niece, Alice, in the company of three other costumed women. An inscription on the photograph refers to Margot Asquith, the wife of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, whose notorious autobiographical writing was recommended to Isabella Stewart Gardner. The photograph was arranged for Isabella Stewart Gardner’s amusement and appears to depict Alice and friends as characters from Mrs. Asquith’s autobiography.
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