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1945 (photographed)
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One of twenty-two contact print photographs; which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace, 1945. Princess Elizabeth; half-length, seated to left, with her hands held together in her lap. Princess Margaret; half-length, standing behind her elder sister. Princess Margaret's hands are placed upon her sister's shoulders. Both are wearing a pale chiffon gowns and double-string pearl necklaces. They look towards a point beyond the camera in contemplation. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of an unidentified winter scene; which Beaton reported in his diary as being a work by the British painter Reginald John [Rex] Whistler (1905-1944).
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Brief description | Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). One of twenty-two contact print photographs; which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace, 1945. |
Physical description | One of twenty-two contact print photographs; which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace, 1945. Princess Elizabeth; half-length, seated to left, with her hands held together in her lap. Princess Margaret; half-length, standing behind her elder sister. Princess Margaret's hands are placed upon her sister's shoulders. Both are wearing a pale chiffon gowns and double-string pearl necklaces. They look towards a point beyond the camera in contemplation. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of an unidentified winter scene; which Beaton reported in his diary as being a work by the British painter Reginald John [Rex] Whistler (1905-1944). |
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Credit line | Bequeathed to the Museum in 1987 by Eileen Hose, secretary to the photographer |
Object history | [Catalogue entry] in: Whistler, Laurence. The Work of Rex Whistler. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1960. p. 91, cat. no. 560. Laurence records the following in reference to a version of the backdrop by Rex Whistler used in this image within the category: 'Periodicals: Illustrations and Decorations': 'The Tatler November 22nd 1935 "Winter": a full-page drawing. A wintry scene with skaters on a pond in the middle distance. In the foreground, reclining on a cartouche inscribed "Winter", an aged nude man, his left arms resting on a jar from which water pours and freezes into icicles on the edge of the cartouche. A rook on a leafless bough above him. The whole in a frame twined with barren twigs. The reproduction was used by Cecil Beaton as a background for a photographic portrait of the music hall artist, Miss Nellie Wallace, and for others."' |
Production | Cecil Beaton photographed members of the royal family from 1930-1979. |
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Bibliographic reference | Strong, Roy C. Cecil Beaton: the royal portraits. London: Thames and Hudson, c1988. p. 20 |
Other number | B.301-12 - Beaton's number |
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Accession number | PH.9275T-1987 |
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Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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