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CORY,
LADY
Neg.
No: (GP) 8964
Neg. Size: 15"x12"
Neg. Date: 23-11-1922
Sitter:
Lady Cory, née Elizabeth Cansh Walker (d.1956).
Biography:
C.B.E. (1929); Daughter of Alexander Walker; m. (1910), as his 2nd wife,
Sir (James) Herbert Cory, 1st Bt.
Date:
23 November 1922.
Occasion:
The Court, 8 June 1922: presented by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
Location:
The Lafayette Studio, 160 New Bond Street, London, W.
Description:
TQL standing.
Costume:
Court dress:
"A
gown of silver tissue veiled with net beaded with crystal and diamanté
net; cloth-of-silver train, lined with chiffon and ornamented at the
hem with large black velvet roses" (see: The Times, 9
June 1922, p 11e).
Costume
Supplier: Machinka.
Jewellery:
-
Furniture
& Props: Painted backdrop; Rococo highbacked armchair.
Photographer:
Lafayette Ltd., 160 New Bond Street, London.
Evidence
of photographer at work: -
No of poses:
6.
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Copyright:
V&A Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References:
Biography:
Burke's Peerage; Who's Who; The Times, 24 November
1956, p 8c.
Occasion:
The Times, 10 June 1922, p 11b; The Court Journal, 16
June 1922, p 302a.
Costume:
The Times, 9 June 1922, p 11e; The Court Journal,
16 June 1922, p 305a.
Costume
Supplier: The Times, 9 June 1922, p 11e.
Jewellery:
-
Reproduced:
-
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