Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Princess Elizabeth with the infant Prince Charles Dec 1948
Gelatin silver print mounted on card | 8.0 x 7.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2999884
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Photograph of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), gazing at the one-month old Prince Charles, later Prince of Wales and King Charles III (b.1948), lying in a cradle. Prince Charles looks towards the direction of the camera. The photographer Beaton recorded in his diary that the Prince ‘interrupted a long, contented sleep to do my bidding and open his blue eyes to stare long and wonderingly into the camera lens, the beginning of a lifetime in the glare of public duty’.
Mounted on board with five other Beaton images.Provenance
Commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II.
From the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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Medium and techniques
Gelatin silver print mounted on card
Measurements
8.0 x 7.5 cm (image)
21.7 x 30.6 cm (mount)
Alternative title(s)
Princess Elizabeth with her infant son, Prince Charles, December 1948.
