#devonshire ball

[gentlyepigrams]

Duchess of Portland Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, a much admired and respected society beauty, a humanitarian and animal rights activist, dressed here as Duchess of Savoy, at Devonshire Ball, 1897.

[jeannepompadour]

Eliabethan costumes at the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball in 1897;

Katharine Mary (née Montagu-Douglas-Scott), Viscountess Hampden as Marie Stuart

Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe as Sir Walter Raleigh

Grace Cecile Lowther (née Gordon), Countess of Lonsdale as the Countess of Essex from the time of Elizabeth

[thepompandcircumstance]

Mabel Edith Hood, Lady Ashburton (1866-1904) at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897. She is dressed up as Tennyson's Enid.

[jeannepompadour]

Empire style costumes at the Devonshire ball in 1897;

Aileen May (née Wyndham-Quin), Countess of Meath as Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland

Catherine Dorothea Mary Grosvenor (née Simeon) as Marie Louise of Austria, Empress of the French

Princess lowestain as Pauline Bonaparte Borghese

Thérèse (née Kinsky), Countess Clary-Aldringen as Pauline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples

Sir Charles Edward Cradock-Hartopp, 5th Bt as Napoleon I; Millicent Florence Eleanor (née Wilson), Lady Cradock-Hartopp (later Countess Cowley and Mrs Duberly) as the Empress Josephine

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William Dodge James as Monsieur d'Artagnan at the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, 1897

[jeannepompadour]

Masquers in 18th century costumes at the Devonshire ball in 1897;

Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Richard Cosway

Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton (née Balfour) after a picture by George Romney

Florence Elizabeth Mary (née Glyn), Lady Portal and Sir William Wyndham Portal, 2nd Bt as Comte and Comtesse de Candale from 'Un Mariage sous Louis XV'

John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl when Marquess of Tullibardine and Lord George Stewart-Murray as two Highland gentlemen from 1745

[jeannepompadour]

Margot Asquith as an "Oriental Snake Charmer" for the Devonshire ball, 1897

[thepompandcircumstance]

Edith Amelia Ward, Lady Wolverton as Britannia at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897.