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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).","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Beaton, Cecil (Sir)","id":"A5902"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"gelatin silver process","id":"AAT139114"},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"photography","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EH8163"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"914","box":"V"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Buckingham Palace","id":"x36741"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1945","earliest":"1945-01-01","latest":"1945-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"PH.595T-1987","id":"O244860"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"PH.9275T-1987","id":"O244809"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"PH.215-1987","id":"O244427"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed to the Museum in 1987 by Eileen Hose, secretary to the photographer","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"19.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"24.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"19.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"24.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"[Catalogue entry] in:  Whistler, Laurence.  <u>The Work of Rex Whistler</u>.  London:  B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1960. p. 91, cat. no. 560.\n\nLaurence 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':\n\n'The Tatler\nNovember 22nd 1935\n\n\"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.\"'\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). 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