Book of Fair Women: photographs by E.O. Hoppé, 1910-21
32 Portraits in set
The Book of Fair Women was published in a limited edition of 560 numbered copies, first in Britain and then in America and Germany. The book contained thirty-two photogravure plates of Hoppé’s portraits of beautiful women from around the world. The German edition had four additional plates, taken by the daughter of Hoppé’s friend and mentor, the leading German portraitist Rudolf Dührkoop, Minya Diez-Dührkoop.
Armen Ohanian (née Sophia Pirboudaghian)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1911
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Mademoiselle Raymonde Thuillier
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1915
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Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, January 1916
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Jean Barbara (née Ainsworth), Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1916
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Olga Marie Stuart Lambert (née Morrison
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1916
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Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia Vaughan (née de Bittencourt), Countess of Lisburne
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 26 November 1916
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Hebe (née Constance Irene Vesselier, later Mrs Kingsland)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1917
NPG Ax132927
Henrietta Grace Mulholland (née D'Arcy), Lady Dunleath of Ballywalter
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 6 November 1918
NPG Ax132932
Pepita Bobadilla (née Nelly Louise Burton) (Mrs Haddon Chambers)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, October 1919
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Fedora Roselli ((Edith) Dora Bernard (née Hodges))
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 20 October 1921
NPG Ax132936
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, February 1921
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Margaretta Armstrong Finch-Hatton (née Drexel), Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, published 1921
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by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, published 1921
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Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1921
NPG Ax132949
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1921
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Unknown woman ('Haitian woman')
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, February 1921
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Unknown woman ('Hawaiian woman')
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1921
NPG Ax132954
Unknown woman ('Dutch West Indian woman')
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, February 1921
NPG Ax132955
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 21 June 1921
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Madame Wellington Koo (née Hui-lan Oei)
by E.O. Hoppé
photogravure, 1921
NPG Ax132958