Miss Michaela Rhode Country Life Magazine Portrait November 12 2008

Miss Michaela Rhode Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, November 12 2008. CCII No. 46

Miss Michaela Rhode - Michaela, aged 19, is the daughter of Mr Michael Rhode, of Cannes, South of France, and of Mrs Giles Swarbreck of Hambledon House, Hambledon, Surrey. Educated at Bedales, she is in her first term at New College, Oxford, reading French and Italian. Pictured here with puppies from Canine Partners, a charity that provides dogs for the disabled, at its national training centre in Heyshott, West Sussex, Michaela is helping to organise an evening reception and auction at the Imperial War Museum in London next Tuesday, November 18, in aid of Canine Partners.

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.