Miss Polly Jackson Country Life Magazine Portrait May 5 2005

Miss Polly Jackson Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 5 2005. CXCIX No. 18

Miss Polly Jackson - Polly, aged 26, is a three-day eventer. A former British junior champion, she has represented Britain in the junior European championships and last year was a reserve for the British Olympic team in Athens. She is shown here with Limestone Rise, her 15-year-old Thoroughbred, on whom she will be competing at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, which start today. She will also be riding Two For Joy, on whom she came fourth at Blenheim last year.

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.