photograph

Place of Origin

Buckingham Palace, England (photographed)

Date

1948, December (photographed)

Artist/maker

Cecil Beaton, born 1904 - died 1980 (photographer)

Dimensions

Width: 7.5 cm each image approx., Height: 8 cm each image approx., Width: 30.8 cm paper, Height: 43.1 cm paper

Descriptive line

Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). One of twelve contact print photographs which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Charles, December 1948.

Exhibition History

Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton : A Diamond Jubilee Celebration (Royal British Columbia Museum 01/06/12-03/09/12)
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton : A Diamond Jubilee Celebration (Art Gallery of Ballarat 25/02/2012-15/04/2012)

Labels and date

Princess Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Anne
December 1948 and September 1950

Just as newspaper readers had responded enthusiastically to Beaton’s wartime portraits of royalty, they were moved by the intimacy of the studies of the infant royals. One reader wrote to The Sunday Graphic and Sunday News: ‘Thank you for your page one picture last week – the picture of Prince Charles with his baby sister, which so many have been waiting so long to see. In my opinion Cecil Beaton surpassed all expectation.’

Gelatin silver contact prints mounted on card
Ph.9274-1987
[2012]

Production Note

Cecil Beaton photographed members of the royal family from 1930-1979.

Materials

Photograph

Techniques

Gelatin silver process

Subjects depicted

Buckingham Palace; , Elizabeth II, Queen of England; HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales

Categories

Portraits; Royalty; Photographs

Collection code

PDP