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Artist/Maker	Beaton, Cecil (Sir) (photographer)
Place of origin	Buckingham Palace (photographed)

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.

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Categories	Photographs Portraits Royalty
Object type	Photograph
Materials and techniques	Paper Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description	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.
Dimensions	Each image approx. width: 7.5cm Each image approx. height: 8cm Paper width: 30.8cm Paper height: 43.1cm
Gallery label	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	Cecil Beaton photographed members of the royal family from 1930-1979.
Subjects depicted	HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland King Charles III
Place depicted	Buckingham Palace
Other number	314-31 - Beaton's number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	PH.9274K-1987

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O244256/photograph-beaton-cecil-sir/

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