Old Ireland In Colour tweets:
…let The Handmaid’s Tale memes begin!
Actually, the Marchioness of Waterford (born Beatrix Frances Petty-FitzMaurice) and baby (Blanche Maud de la Poer Beresford). 1898
Original image: National Library Of Ireland
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what a beautifully tailored jacket
Blanche Maud de la Poer Beresford (baby) died in 1940 in a Car Accident at the age of 42
I had a look at the original in the linked National Library archive. I have always felt there is a beauty in black and white photography that colour just does not match.I do not know how to describe it, but maybe a subtlety of shading, where you are not given all the information and have to infer.
For example, in this case I think the mother has a much softer countenance looking at her baby in the B&W version than in the colourised one.
Or maybe I am just a sentimental old fool :-)
Wonderful photo. And what an incredibly tall baby
Beatrix Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford [widow] Curraghmore daughter of Marquis of Lansdowne married
Osborne de Vere Beauclerk, Newtown Anner, Clonmel son of Duke of St Albans on August 19th 1918
The family pile at Curraghmore is the site of the All Together Now festival.
Here’s an interesting reference to a family curse which doomed several of her family to untimely deaths.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/obituary-the-irish-peer-who-outlived-curse-30998942.html
The curse which is referred to in the obituary affected the male line of the Lord Waterford family.
The reasons for the curse are many and are lost in time. But one thing that’s constant is the Lord Waterford in the above obituary was the first Lord in a long time that lived to see his first son and inheritor of the title reach the age of 21 years.