Miss Antonia Farmer Country Life Magazine Portrait May 20 2004

Miss Antonia Farmer Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 20, 2004. CXCVIII No. 21

Miss Antonia Farmer - Antonia, aged 21, is the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Farmer, of Fisher Cottage, Fisher, West Sussex. She is in her second year at Merton College, Oxford, reading modern history. She has rowed for Merton Women's Boat Club, plays hockey for the college and is about to embark on college-level women's cricket. She also enjoys art, music and drama, and has just hosted the college arts festival. She is photographed here by Magdalen Bridge.

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.