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Photograph

1942 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Beaton, Cecil (Sir) (photographer)
Place of origin
Buckingham Palace (photographed)

Contact print photograph depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), 1942. Half-length, seated, she is turning slightly from the camera and smiling. Resting one elbow on the back of her chair, she holds one hand in the other. She wears a uniform (Grenadier Guards) blazer with a brooch on the lapel, and a matching hat decorated with a ribbon, a pearl and a leaf-like emblem. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of 'The Gardens of the Villa d’Este at Tivoli', c.1761-62 by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806).


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
photography
Paper
Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description
Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Contact print photograph depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), Buckingham Palace, 1942.
Physical description
Contact print photograph depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), 1942. Half-length, seated, she is turning slightly from the camera and smiling. Resting one elbow on the back of her chair, she holds one hand in the other. She wears a uniform (Grenadier Guards) blazer with a brooch on the lapel, and a matching hat decorated with a ribbon, a pearl and a leaf-like emblem. A backdrop depicts an enlarged and adapted section of 'The Gardens of the Villa d’Este at Tivoli', c.1761-62 by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806).
Dimensions
  • Image width: 5.6cm
  • Image height: 5.8cm
  • Paper width: 6.4cm
  • Paper height: 6.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '213-18' (Written on frame of negative before contact printing.)
  • 'light' (Written in blue ink on the surface of the print, upper right.)
  • [various dots close to eye area and hair] (Drawn in blue ink on the surface of the print, indicating an intention to re-touch these areas.)
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
HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Place depicted
Buckingham Palace
Other number
213-18 - Beaton's number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.6576-1987

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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