Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cornelia (née Martin), Countess of Craven NPG x45415

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by H. Walter Barnett

Cornelia was the only daughter of Bradley Martin, a wealthy New York banker. The socially ambitious family rented a Scottish highland estate, Balmacaan, where Cornelia met William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven, whom she married in New York in 1893, aged only sixteen. Her mother famously co-ordinated the lavish society costume party, the Bradley-Martin Ball, at the Waldorf Hotel, New York in 1897. Despite her good intentions to create an economic stimulus for the city at a time of recession, the event was criticised for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.