Sujet
The late Duchess of Leinster, 1895. Creator: Lafayette.
Légende
The late Duchess of Leinster, 1895. 'Society has lost in the youthful Duchess of Leinster one of its brightest and most winsome ornaments. Hermione Wilhelmina was the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Feversham, and was within eleven days of her thirty-first birthday. Her beauty...has been the delight of many eyes; and to beauty the Duchess of Leinster added a love of art which found expression in a capital study of sculpture. It was in January 1884 that she married the fifth Duke of Leinster, the Premier Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Ireland...In 1893 the Duke died after a very brief illness, and this shock undoubtedly accelerated the illness of his wife. The Duchess had been spending the winter in the Riviera, but all that medical skill and the devoted nursing of her family could do was unable to avert the fatal termination which took place at Mentone, on March 19...The young Duke, who is only seven years old, and his two brothers, have thus been bereft within two years of both their parents. The funeral will take place in Ireland. Her death has cast a gloom over all the English circle in the South of France'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM26A08_151
Model release
NA
Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
10,6Mo (1,7Mo) / 13,4cm x 19,8cm / 1581 x 2339 (300dpi)