Photographs: PH1950

Title

Maud Branscombe and Edith Branscombe

Subject

Branscombe, Maud

Dimensions

height: 9.3cm
width: 5cm

Inscription/signature

Handwritten in pencil top of image: "Maud Branscombe & / Miss Chester"

Provenance

Presented by Michael Gaunt, September 2025.

Other number

E0152

Carte-de-visite depicting actresses Maud Branscombe on the left and most likely her sister Edith Branscombe on the right. Handwritten description at the top of the object added at a later date and now considered not Miss Chester due to numerous carte-de-visites in the V&A Museum showing Maud Branscombe and her sister in a similar pose. They are depicted half length showing their head and shoulders, but has been cut down. Maud faces upwards to the left and Edith faces to the right.