Post­ed by Cha­va Lansky

Han­nah Roth­schild’s 2012 book The Baroness is an expose of her great-aunt Nica, the ​“rebel­lious Roth­schild,” a woman who lived out her years hov­er­ing on the edge of soci­ety. The book cov­er illus­tra­tion cap­tur­ing Nica’s par­tic­u­lar je ne sais quoi is by San Fran­cis­co based artist cou­ple Vivenne Flesh­er and Ward Shu­mak­er.

Relat­ed Content:

• Nathan May­er Roth­schild and the Cre­ation of a Dynasty by Hebert H. Kaplan
• Extra­or­di­nary by Nan­cy Werlin
• The Israel Muse­um, Jerusalem by Israel Muse­um Curators