Portrait of Baroness Olga von TURK-ROHN
Photography
2021.9.21.15.PH.OT.1927.US
Photograph portrait of Baroness Olga von TURK-ROHN, direct descendent of the Italian house of Capulet, displaying her ancestral jewels that once belonged to the immediate family of Juliet. Earrings and necklaces of diamonds cut five or six hundred years ago and set in silver. Many of her jewels were gifts of German, Italian and Roumanian rulers. She is wearing a leather coat decorated with a fur collar, a pleated dress decorated with ribbons. She wears also a hat with narrow sides.