Evacuated children in nursery at tea time, England
Artist
Cecil Beaton
(English, 1904 - 1980)
Dateca. 1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches (26.37 x 25.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2009.37.4
InscribedOn back, red stamp: "The March of Time Ltd / (Pictures Division) / London / Our Number 8184." On back, written in pencil: "'A Nursery School' class taken over the wing known as 'Bachelor's Row' from Kentish Town these rooms are now made into dormitories and play rooms, with rocking horses -The 40 children from Kentish town are looked after by four women who do their own cooking, etc.-these children are shown at tea-4 o'clock (milk-brown bread & butter and biscuits."
On View
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Terms
Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
MO, September 26, 2009 – February 21, 2010,
no cat.
Copyright© Estate of Cecil Beaton
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