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Dancing Pictures - Ladies and the Figures They Will Be

Page from The Sketch reporting on the costumes various society ladies would be wearing when they dressed up as famous paintings for the Picture Ball at the Albert Hall on 3rd December 1913, an event in aid of the Invalid Kitchens of London. Shown here is the Hon. Irene Lawley who would be dressed as an angel by Fra Angelico, Miss Muriel Wilson, also a Fra Angelico angel (this one with tambourine). Mrs John Lavery however (Hazel Lavery) would be going as Flora from Botticelli's La Primvera

Picture No
14165902
Media ID
48711358
Size
3855px x 5907px (6.7MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Page portrait photographs by Lafayette and Lallie Charles and photograph of pictures by Anderson in The Sketch', 26 November 1913, page 224
Date
1913

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Angelico Botticelli Hazel Lavery Lawley Muriel Primavera Sep25


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