Betty Nuthall and Cilly Aussem Country Life Magazine Portrait July 2 1927

Miss Betty Nuthall and Cilly "Fraulein" Aussem Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 2 1927. LXII No. 1589

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Betty Nuthall with her first opponent, Cilly “Fraulein” Aussem, at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

• The Players: Betty Nuthall was a British tennis prodigy, just 16 years old at the time, while Cilly Aussem was one of Germany’s leading players and a major figure in women’s tennis.
• The Match: Nuthall defeated Aussem in this early-round Wimbledon encounter, a victory that drew great enthusiasm from the crowd.
• Rivalry: Both players were rising stars of the era and would go on to achieve Grand Slam success.
• Legacy: In 1930, Betty Nuthall became the first non-American woman since 1892 to win the U.S. National Championships (now the US Open).

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 13.75 x 9 inches (35 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.

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.