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Photograph

1939 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

One of eleven photographs from a contact print which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Seated, full-length, wearing a gown embroidered with sequins and a diamond tiara. Her face is turned towards the camera and she holds her hands in her lap. Flowers surround the chair; hydrangeas, carnations, and gladioli. A gilt and upholstered foot-stool is just seen at the base of the image, beneath folds of the dress. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of 'The Swing' by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806).


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
photography
Brief description
Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). One of eleven images depicting Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), Buckingham Palace, 1939. From a contact sheet, cut out, arranged and mounted on card.
Physical description
One of eleven photographs from a contact print which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Seated, full-length, wearing a gown embroidered with sequins and a diamond tiara. Her face is turned towards the camera and she holds her hands in her lap. Flowers surround the chair; hydrangeas, carnations, and gladioli. A gilt and upholstered foot-stool is just seen at the base of the image, beneath folds of the dress. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of 'The Swing' by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806).
Dimensions
  • Paper width: 27.8cm
  • Paper height: 50.5cm
  • Image width: 6.1cm
  • Image height: 7.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'N.S. No.9' ('N.S. No[-]' is written in blue fountain pen beneath each of the eleven images.)
  • 'Approved Photographs. Series N.S. 1939' ('Approved Photographs. Series N.S. 1939' is written in capital letters, positioned centrally in the upper portion of the card.)
Credit line
Bequeathed to the Museum in 1987 by Eileen Hose, secretary to the photographer
Production
Cecil Beaton photographed members of the royal family from 1930-1979.
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Strong, Roy C. Cecil Beaton: the royal portraits. London: Thames and Hudson, c1988. p. 64-5
Other number
N.S. No. 9 - Beaton's number
Collection
Accession number
PH.495I-1987

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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