Miss Irene and Miss Lydia Forte Country Life Magazine Portrait May 3 2001

Miss Irene Forte and Miss Lydia Forte Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 3, 2001. CXCV No. 18

Miss Irene and Miss Lydia Forte - Irene, aged 12, and Lydia, 14, are the daughters of the Honourable Sir Rocco and Lady Forte. Pictured here wearing Oliver Brown cloth-ing with Clara and Cider, they will model on a grouse-moor catwalk at this year's Game Conservancy Ball fashion show on May 15 at Le Meridien Grosvenor House.

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 12.5 x 9 inches (32 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. The reverse side contains unrelated printed text, as issued.

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.