{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O244860"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O244860/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CD9271/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CD9271/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2009CD9271","copyright":"©Cecil Beaton/Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AL1080","copyright":"©Cecil Beaton/Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2010EH8216","copyright":"©Cecil Beaton/Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O244860","accessionNumber":"PH.595T-1987","objectType":"Photograph","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"One of twenty-two contact print photographs; which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace, 1945. Princess Elizabeth; half-length, seated to left, with her hands held together in her lap. Princess Margaret; half-length, standing behind her elder sister. 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"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"photography","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CD9271","2006AL1080","2010EH8216"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"914","box":"C"}],"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.9275T-1987","id":"O244809"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"PH.6746-1987","id":"O1172126"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed to the Museum in 1987 by Eileen Hose, secretary to the photographer","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"7.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"32.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"34.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'B.301-12'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Written in blue fountain pen beneath the image."},{"content":"'Approved Photographs. Series 292 / Series B.301'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Written in capital letters, positioned in the lower left hand corner of the card."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Royal Portrait by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). One of twenty-two contact print photographs; which has been cut out, arranged and mounted on card. Depicting Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace, 1945.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Strong, Roy C. Cecil Beaton: the royal portraits. London: Thames and Hudson, c1988. p. 20"}],"production":"Cecil Beaton photographed members of the royal family from 1930-1979.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Buckingham Palace","id":"x36741"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","id":"N38"},{"text":"Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon","id":"N14893"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Buckingham Palace\r\nMarch 1945\r\n\r\nAfter each royal sitting, Beaton would send a selection of the best photographs to the Palace for official approval before publication. Small prints of the approved photographs would be mounted on card, together with their negative numbers, to facilitate future print orders. The worn-out nature of this card indicates how frequently it must have been referred to by Beaton and his assistants.\r\n\r\nGelatin silver contact prints mounted on card\r\nV&A: Ph.595 A-V-1987 \r\n","date":{"text":"2012","earliest":"2012-01-01","latest":"2012-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["PH.595T-1987"],"accessionNumberNum":"595","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":1987,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Beaton's number","id":"THES57707"},"number":"B.301-12"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-08","availableToBook":false}}