Miss Poppy Beamish Country Life Magazine Portrait May 25 2000

Miss Poppy Beamish Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 25, 2000. CXCIV No. 21

Miss Poppy Beamish - Poppy, aged 18, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Beamish, of Totterton Farmhouse, Lydbury North, Shropshire. A debutante this season, she is seen here modelling clothes from Phase Eight at this year's (the 48th) Berkeley Dress Show, which raised more than £20,000 for the NSPCC. Poppy has now returned to her A-level studies at Moreton Hall, afer which she hopes to read Classics at Edinburgh University.

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.