Research Catalog
The emperor of Abyssinia and his suite
- Title
- The emperor of Abyssinia and his suite [picture].
- Author
- Lafayette Ltd.
- Publication
- [London : Lafayette Ltd., 1910].
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Still image | Permit needed | Berg Coll+++ Woolf ZP8 L34 1910 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w; 178 x 225 mm.
- Summary
- Full-length portrait of Virginia Stephen [Virginia Woolf], Duncan Grant, Anthony Buxton, and Guy Ridley, faces darkened and with false beards, standing in costumes of Abyssinian princes, with two men in Western formal garb (Adrian Stephen and Horace de Vere Cole).
- Subjects
- De Vere Cole, Horace > Portraits
- Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978 > Portraits
- Ridley, Guy, 1885-1947) > Portraits
- Photographs > Great Britain > 20th century
- Buxton, Anthony, 1881-1970 > Portraits
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Portraits
- Hoaxes > Great Britain
- Dreadnought (Battleship)
- Portraits > Great Britain > 20th century
- Impostors and imposture > Great Britain
- Stephen, Adrian > Portraits
- Genre/Form
- Portraits – Great Britain – 20th century.
- Photographs – Great Britain – 20th century.
- Note
- This photograph documents the so-called "Dreadnought Hoax" perpetrated by Horace De Vere Cole as a pacifist protest. He arranged for a telegram to be sent in the name of the Foreign Office Under-Secretary to the H.M.S. Dreadnought, which was moored in Weymouth, instructing the captain to prepare for a visit from a group of Abyssinian princes. The "princes" were welcomed with an honor guard and inspected the battleship. When the imposters returned to London, Cole revealed the hoax, took two pictures of his fellow conspirators, one in which they are posed standing and one in which they are seated, and sent them to the Daily Mirror, which published the image of them seated. The hoax generated a political furor in Parliament and great embarrassment to the Navy (see Adrian Stephen, The "Dreadnought" Hoax. London: The Hogarth Press, 1936).
- Photograph appeared under this title as the frontispiece of Adrian Stephen's book, The "Dreadnought" Hoax.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Copy/Version (note)
- Includes notes in pencil: "Lafayette / London" (recto, below photograph) and "45926B" (verso, on mounting paper).
- Binding (note)
- Mounted in Lafayette "Photographer Royal" folder (40 x 30 cm.) within portfolio of blue paper-covered binder's boards with ribbon ties.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll+++ Woolf ZP8 L34 1910
- OCLC
- 692197780
- Author
- Lafayette Ltd.
- Title
- The emperor of Abyssinia and his suite [picture].
- Imprint
- [London : Lafayette Ltd., 1910].
- Access
- Restricted access; Request permission from holding division.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- A related photograph showing the party seated is held by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG P1293).
- Copy/Version
- Includes notes in pencil: "Lafayette / London" (recto, below photograph) and "45926B" (verso, on mounting paper). NNBGC
- Binding
- Mounted in Lafayette "Photographer Royal" folder (40 x 30 cm.) within portfolio of blue paper-covered binder's boards with ribbon ties. NNBGC
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- England London.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll+++ Woolf ZP8 L34 1910