Miss Sophie Furse Country Life Magazine Portrait January 17 2008

Miss Sophie Furse Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, January 17 2008. CCII No. 3

Miss Sophie Furse - Sophie, who will be 20 on Sunday, is the elder daughter of Mr William Furse and of Mrs Jeremy Stoke, of Harborne, Birmingham. Educated at Rugby, she spent her gap year working for IBM and for Raleigh International in Borneo, and attended Art History Abroad's summer course in Italy. Sophie is now in her first year at Edinburgh reading art history and economics, and is also accepting portrait commissions. She hopes to pursue a career in the arts and finance.

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.