Name/Title
"Homewood Garden"Entry/Object ID
2012.011.005Description
Print, photographic. B/W photograph, hand-tinted, showing the front of Homewood; taken from the side, looking across the front of the house and its entrance; yard is filled with flowering trees and shrubs. Titled "Homewood Garden" in pencil below image. Signed "Jones Sisters" in pencil. Overall size 5" x 7"; image size 3.75" x 6". Was framed in 2012.11.6.Acquisition
Accession
2012.011Source or Donor
Weller, Darleen W.Acquisition Method
GiftGeneral Notes
Note
The Jones sisters had a studio in their home on Springfield Avenue in Sykesville. Fannie (b. 1881) wrote the histories that accompanied many of their photos. Ida (b.1882) graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and did the hand-tinting in oils. Elsie (b.1885) did the photography. Their earlier works are signed "Trois Soeurs" and the later ones are signed "Jones Sisters." The Homewood property in Baltimore belonged to Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He gave the land to his son, Charles Carroll, Jr., who built the house between 1801-1808. Homewood is now a museum on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.