YARBOROUGH, COUNTESS OF

Neg. No: (GP) (L) 1493-233

Neg. Size: 15"x12"[ck]

Neg. Date: 26-7-1897

Sitter: Marcia Amelia Mary, Countess of Yarborough (1863-1926) née Lane Fox.⁽¹⁾

Biog: O.B.E. 1920; eldest daughter and co-heiress of 12th Baron Conyers; m. (1886) 4th Earl of Yarborough.

Role: Countess Tchoglokov, a lady at the Court of Catherine the Great.⁽²⁾

Date: 26 July 1897.

Occasion: The Devonshire House Ball, 2 July 1897.

Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179, New Bond Street, London, W.

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: -

Costume Supplier: Mrs Nettleship, 58 Wigmore Street, London, W.

Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop; studio Jacobean-style mock staircase.

Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London, W.

Evidence of photographer at work: Studio assistant and sea-scape backdrop partially visible behind pillar to right of plate.

No of poses: 4.

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Biog: Burke's Peerage; The Complete Peerage; The Times, 18 November 1926, p 19a & photo. p 18.

Role: Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed, 1899, p 124, (National Portrait Gallery Archives).

Occasion: Sophia Murphy, The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball, London, 1984.

Costume: The Daily Chronicle, 3 July 1897, p 7g; The Daily Telegraph, 3 July 1897, p 10a; The Morning Post, 3 July 1897, p 7g; The Standard, 3 July 1897, p 4c; The Lady, 8 July 1897, pp 44 [line drawing] & 46c; The Court Circular, 10 July 1897, p 264b; The Court Journal, 10 July 1897, p 1247a; Lady's Pictorial, 10 July 1897, pp 47 [line drawing] & 53b; Madame, 10 July 1897, p 69a; The Queen, 10 July 1897, p 76a.

Costume Supplier: The Lady, 8 July 1897, p 46c.

Reproduced: (Version) Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed, 1899, p 124, (National Portrait Gallery Archives).

1. Also Baroness Fauconberg and Baroness Conyers in her own right.

2. Maria, Countess Tchoglokov (1724-1756); daughter of Simon Leontievitch Guendrikov and niece of Empress Catherine I; m. (1742) Nikolaï Maoumovitch, Count Tchoglokov; 'Grande Maîtresse' at the court of Empress Elizabeth I and governess to Empress Catherine II (reigned 1762-1796) when Grand Duchess. (See La Noblesse de Russie, Paris, 1961 and also Catherine the Great: Memoirs, London, 1927 [get earlier]).