The Queen, art & image /

Moorhouse, Paul.

The Queen, art & image / Paul Moorhouse ; with an essay by David Cannadine. - London : National Portrait Gallery, c2011. - 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name opening at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, 25 June-18 September 2011 and later finishing at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 17 May-21 Oct. 2012.

Includes bibliography (p. 171) and index.

David Cannadine's essay, Sixty years a Queen : some historical reflections on the reign and the jubilees of Elizabeth II, opens the book. Then Paul Moorhouse writes a chapter titled The Queen: art and image, followed by art and images of the Queen with comments by Moorhouse. The illustrations are grouped by decade from the 11950s to the 2000s. Thereafter there is a chronology of the important events in the Queen's reign with some representative photographs.

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Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- --Portraits.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- --Portraits.


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