Miss Larissa Blackshaw Country Life Magazine Portrait April 22 2009

Miss Larissa Blackshaw Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, April 22 2009. CCIII No. 16

Miss Larissa Blackshaw - Larissa, aged 24, is the daughter of the concert pianist Christian Blackshaw. A music scholar at Downe House, she read Music at Bristol University and is now pursuing a singing career in London. She is photographed at the home of her father and Theresa Tollemache in Suffolk.

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.