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Photograph

September 1950 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Cecil Beaton (photographer)
Place of origin
Westminster (photographed)

Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Photograph depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Charles. Clarence House, 1950.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
Paper
Gelatin
Brief description
Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Photograph depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Charles. Clarence House, 1950.
Gallery label
(2012)
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles, Clarence House
September 1950

One of the day’s most natural portraits shows Princess Elizabeth giving her young son a piggyback. It is a 20th-century version of a famous 1868 photograph by W. & D. Downey, depicting Princess Alexandra carrying her first-born daughter Princess Louise on her back.

Gelatin silver print
V&A: E.1626-1989
Credit line
Bequeathed to the Museum in 1987 by Eileen Hose, secretary to the photographer
Subjects depicted
King Charles III
Elizabeth II
Place depicted
Westminster
Other number
B504-3 - Beaton's number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1626-1989

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O244271/photograph-cecil-beaton/
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