EXCEPTIONAL PORTRAIT BY DOROTHY WILDING OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II

wearing the Crown jewels, the photograph affixed to original studio mount signed and dated "Elizabeth R, 1953", in ebonised frame with gilt crown at the top, 57 x 75cm.

***This portrait was taken at a sitting in the year of Elizabeth’s accession to the throne in 1952, and has become one of the defining images of the early years of her reign.