Title from caption on object: “Modelling Cockney”
August 21, 1967
Artist, British, active 1960s-1980s
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21 × 16.9 cm (8 1/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 23 × 17.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.552
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, center printed in black ink on applied paper: CAUTION! WATCH RELEASE DATE! [underlined] / AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / D-4192 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, Dec. 17, with / Granville Watt's London APN / Story on Cockneys) / MODELLING COCKNEY / Leslie Hornby was merely a beauty / shop operator with a heavy Cockney / accent when a young man named Nigel / Davies, another Cockney, met her. Now / Justin de Villeneuve, as Nigel renamed / himself, is the manager and agent for / the international model Twiggy, as he / renamed Leslie. The girl, who still / lives with her parents in their North / London home, established a standard in / clothing and fashions which influenced / women worldwide. Here the two, hand in / hand, are at the London Airport recently, / she [is] wearing an Indian costume of her own / design. (AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO) / 6173-jb-11/28/67 str sil207