"Indian Album" 1945 BEATON, Cecil (INSCRIBED) D.D. Ryan Double colour plate by 'Sem'

Double colour plate by 'Sem' aka Georges Goursat (1863-1934) depicting the 'Palais de Glace' inaugurated in 1911 as an ice skating rink & social club in Paris

Jessie crops up frequently in his autobiographical writings and a chapter is dedicated to her in The Glass of Fashion

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies was a British expert on heraldry

The sitters and models are statuesque and stand apart from the viewer

Written in a lively and informative style

"Indian Album" 1945 BEATON, Cecil (INSCRIBED) D.D. Ryan Double colour plate by 'Sem'BEATON, Cecil [78] pp. B. T. Batsford Ltd 1945 9" x 7 1 8" w Cecil Beaton hand written 1pg letter addressed to Sir Reginald laid in on his 8 Pelham Place stationary Cecil Beaton's photographs of war time India. Beaton was sent to the Far East during World War II to take photographs for the Ministry of Information. He visited India in 1944 and An Indian Album brings together a collection of the photographs he took there. As well as images of Indian