January 1960 (printed 2009). Inscribed in pencil with title and date, numbered 1/50, and with signature credit and Sotheby's Studio Archive copyright reproduction limitation stamps verso. Gelatin silver print.
image: 18 1/2 x 18 5/16 in. (47 x 46.5cm)
sheet: 22 11/16 x 19 7/8 in. (57.6 x 50.5cm)

Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 2009).
EXHIBITED:
"Cecil Beaton," Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April - May, 2009, exhibition no. 59.

Born in the Hampstead neighborhood of London in 1904, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was a renowned photographer, as well as an award-winning theater, costume and interior designer. Beaton began working as a photographer for British Vogue in 1927, and was later appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to the Ministry of Information, where he served as a war photographer during WWII. He frequently photographed the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, and it is his portraits of celebrities and the aristocracy for which he is best known. Beaton received Knighthood in 1972.