Sketch cover, Lady D'Abernon as an anaesthetist, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (nee Duncombe) (1866-1954), British peeress, socialite and diarist. Lady D'Abernon, a noted society beauty of her day, married Sir Edgar Vincent in 1890. During the First World War, Lady Helen trained as a nurse anaesthetist and treated thousands of patients in allied military hospitals
Picture No
13991470
Media ID
45429596
Size
3600px x 5590px
(4.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Val d'Estrange on the front cover of The Sketch, 20 March 1918
Date
1918
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