Harriet Barford and Polly Wilkinson Country Life Magazine Portrait March 10 2010

Miss Harriet Barford and Miss Polly Wilkinson Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, March 10 2010. CCIV No. 10

Miss Harriet Barford and Miss Polly Wilkinson - Polly, aged 24 and Harry, 25, are the designers behind the Draw in Light fashion label. The girls studied Fashion and Textiles with Business at the University of Brighton, before launching their company in December 2009. Their designs have recently been taken up by Liberty of London. Polly and Harry are photographed with Storm, the deerhound, in their studio at Danehill, East Sussex.

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.