Society Women as Goddesses, 1935, by Madame Yevonde

Mrs Edward Mayer as Medusa

‘Yevonde Cumbers Middleton (1893 – 1975) was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde. Yevonde’s most famous work was inspired by a theme party held on March 5, 1935, where guests dressed as Roman and Greek gods and goddesses. Yevonde subsequently took studio portraits of many of the participants (and others), in appropriate costume and surrounded by appropriate objects’

- Wikipedia

The Honorable Mrs Bryan Guinness as Venus

Nadine, Countess of Shrewsbury as Ariadne

Mrs Richard Hart-Davis as Ariel

Mrs Anthony Eden as Clio, the Muse of History

Lady Milbanke as Penthelisa, Queen of the Amazons

Lady Michael Balcon as Minerva

Lady Bridgett Poulett as Arethusa

Lady Anne Rhys poses as the goddess Flora

Eileen Hunter (Mrs Ward Jackson) as Dido

Dorothy, Duchess of Welington as Hecate

Baroness Gagern as Europa

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