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Photograph

08/06/1961 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Beaton, Cecil (Sir) (photographer)
Place of origin
Hovingham, North Yorkshire (made)

Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Photograph depicting Katharine Worsley, Duchess of Kent on her wedding day, Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, 1961.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
Paper
Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description
Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Photograph depicting Katharine Worsley, Duchess of Kent on her wedding day, Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, 1961.
Dimensions
  • Image width: 20.6cm
  • Paper width: 20.6cm
  • Image height: 25.4cm
  • Paper height: 25.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'The Wedding of H.R.H. The Duke of Kent:/ THE NEW DUCHESS OF KENT / A study of Miss Katharine Worsley, who became the Duchess of Kent after her marriage to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent / in York Minster on June / 8th, 1961, taken by Cecil Beaton at Hovingham Hall in Yorkshire. / The Duchess is pictured in her gown of gossamer white silk gauze / woven with a formal design in iridescent silvery thread; her train / was 15 feet long. / Please acknowledge: Study by CECIL BEATON / CAMERA PRESS LONDON 6720-4' (Typed on paper, affixed to reverse of photograph.)
  • 'COPYRIGHT / CAMERA PRESS LTD. / RUSSELL COURT / CORAM STREET / LONDON W.C.1. / TERMINUS 4488 & 9393' (Printed with ink-stamp on reverse.)
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
Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley Duchess of Kent
Places depicted
Hovingham
North Yorkshire
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.3899-1987

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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