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  Pietre dure: The tomb of Cecilia Metella
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  Opera divas

  Maria Callas (1923 – 1977) Maria Anna Sophie Cecilia Kalogeropoulos, known to the world as Maria Callas…
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  Cecil Beaton – an introduction

  A photographer of fashion, society, and the British Royal Family, Cecil Beaton was also a set and costume designer and fashion expert
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  Cecil Beaton: royal photographer

  Find out more about the Cecil Beaton archive of royal portraits at the V&A
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  Costume conservation: My Fair Lady

  Designed in the 1950s by iconic designer and photographer Cecil Beaton, the dress was influenced by Beaton's…
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  A brief history of ghosts and spirit photography

  Charles Dickens, to ghostly apparitions in stereographs, and famous photographs by Lewis Carroll and Cecil…
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  Gabrielle Enthoven – collector of theatre and performance

  She corresponded with then V&A director Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith over several years, determined to…
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  Introducing Cristóbal Balenciaga

  Many pieces were sourced for the Museum by society photographer Cecil Beaton, who used his contacts to…
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  About the Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion exhibition

  amp;A has the largest collection of Balenciaga in the UK, initiated in the 1970s by the photographer Cecil…
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  Lockwood Kipling’s collection of Indian popular art

  On 1 August, 1917, the Museum's Director, Sir Cecil Smith wrote in response: "We shall be very glad to…
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  About the Fashioning Masculinities exhibition

  as extensive photography showing changing styles and attitudes, from Oscar Wilde, Claude Cahun and Cecil…
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  'Campanula' tea and coffee set by Paul Follot for Wedgwood

  In about 1911, Follot was recommended to Cecil Wedgwood, one of the partners of the Wedgwood company,…
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  The Rodin Gift to the V&A

  key advocate of Rodin's work and the negotiator between Rodin and the Director of the V&A, Sir Cecil…
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  Madeleine Vionnet – an introduction

  important photographers of the time: Edward Steichen (1879 – 1973), George Hoyningen-Huene (1900 – 68), Cecil…
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  Wallpapers for children

  that ranged from the chubby babies of Mabel Lucie Attwell to the playful sturdy children in friezes by Cecil…
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  Curtis Moffat: life and work

  Another frequent subject was fellow society photographer Cecil Beaton (1904 – 80).…
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  'My Years and Seasons' by Pierre Balmain

  with them their big white French poodle, Basket, and a tall Englishman whom I had never seen before: Cecil…
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  100 years of fashion photography

  Tim Walker conjures a whimsical, technicolour England, inspired by the opulence of Cecil Beaton's early…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  The gown was donated to the V&A by the gay photographer and costume designer Cecil Beaton.…
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  The story of theatre

  Plays included Cecily Hamilton and Christopher St John's How the Vote Was Won (1909), and Hamilton's…