Lady Anne Cavendish Country Life Magazine Portrait June 2 1928

Lady Anne Cavendish Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, June 2 1928. LXIII No. 1637

The featured frontispiece this week is a photograph of Lady Anne Cavendish, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, pictured fishing in the Blackwater, County Cork.

• Identity: Lady Anne Cavendish (1909–1981), the youngest of the daughters of the 9th Duke of Devonshire and Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice.
• Family: She was part of the prominent Cavendish family, with strong ties to Lismore Castle in Ireland.
• Location: The photograph was taken on the River Blackwater in County Cork, an area closely associated with the Devonshire estate and well known for salmon fishing.
• First Marriage: She married Henry Hunloke in 1929, with whom she had three children before their divorce in 1945.
• Later Life: She subsequently married Christopher Holland-Martin, and later Victor Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich.
• Social Context: Her appearance as a frontispiece subject reflects the prominence of the Devonshire family in British aristocratic and social life.

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.