Photograph of Miss Elizabeth "Bessie" Ramsen Webb (later Mrs. George B. Parsons) as Mme. Le Diable

26 March 1883

Photograph from the 1883 Vanderbilt Fancy Dress Ball album, taken by Jose Maria Mora (Cuban, c. 1847-1926), depicting Miss Elizabeth "Bessie" Ramsen Webb (later Mrs. George B. Parsons) dressed as Mme. Le Diable. A contemporary account from the New York Times described her costume as: "[…] a red satin dress with a black velvet demon embroidered on it and the entire dress trimmed with 'demon fringe' -- that is to say, with a fringe ornamented with the heads and horns of little demons."

American

photographic print

Mat window opening: 6.5 x 11 inches (16.5 x 27.9 cm)

Bequest of Harold S. Vanderbilt

PSNCA.H.018.42