Mrs. Ernest Guthe nee Dorothy Renwick Country Life Magazine Portrait September 13 1930

Mrs. Ernest Guthe nee Dorothy Renwick Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, September 13 1930. LXVIII No. 1756

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Mrs. Ernest Guthe with her two children, Ann and Digby.

• Identity: Dorothy Renwick, who became Mrs. Ernest Guthe upon her marriage.
• Marriage: She was the wife of Ernest Guthe, of Kepwick Hall, North Yorkshire, a prominent landowner and Justice of the Peace.
• Lineage: She was the daughter of Sir Harry Renwick, 1st Baronet, a notable industrialist and public servant.
• Children: The portrait features her two young children:
  • Ann (likely Ann Mary Guthe, born 1929)
  • Digby (likely Digby Julius Ernest Guthe)
• Social Context: Family portraits such as this were a regular feature in Country Life, highlighting prominent households and the next generation within British society.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.