Picture Library: Credits
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| Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh |
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| Fashionable ladies, 1914, Italy |
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| 1959 London wedding guests in Horrocks dresses |
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| Alexandra Malagola, 1922, Frascati, Italy |
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Carla Thorneycroft, Italy, 1959 |
2010
- 2010 Penguin Classics Publishers: credit for Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
© Vanessa Wagstaff/Mary Evans Picture Library
2009
- Consultant picture researcher, period: 1800-1900, for Charlotte Holdich, costume designer for a new TV drama: 'Going Postal' based on the novel by Terry Pratchett.
- Consultant picture researcher, period: 1790–1835, on the BBC's new costume drama of Jane Austen's 'Emma', working with costume designer, Rosalind Ebbutt. Including specialist images on dress for the clergy.
2008
- Mary Evans Picture Library: www.maryevans.com represent a larger portion of my collection.
- Select Vanessa Wagstaff under 'Collections' and then 'view all' or selection.
- Publishers and film production companies have commissioned a variety of images from Sandhurst cadets, to 1920s shoes, to Victorian ladies.
These images cover:
- 1855–1960; Lifestyle and dress in Britain, America; and from 1996: landscapes, travel, still life, dress related artifacts
- 1910–1946: Italy, Venice and Rome, fashionable dress and lifestyle.
- 1920–1930 British Raj in Indore, Mhow, India,
(including a visit from the Viceroy, Lord Irwin (Earl Halifax) to Indore and Army service by Lt. Col. George H. Innes in India with the West Yorkshire Regiment and in civil service.) I hold the complete itinerary - please apply for details.
From 2007
- Images of Empire, Bristol, represent my British India section 1920-1930 -see examples at www.imagesofempire.com. (Search for 'Wagstaff'). These feature Lord Irwin 1928 at Indore, India as well as many other images of the preprations involved. These came from my grandfather, Lt. Col. George William Holt Innes who served with the West Yorkshire Regiment, The Prince of Wales’ Own in Mhow at this time. (example pictured right, 2nd down, a regimental banquet).
- The Times Newspaper, obituary of Carla Thorneycroft. (1949 image)
From 2005 to present
- Consultant and supplier of scans and images for www.HarperCollins.co.uk of the dust-jacket designs of Agatha Christie British first editions 1926–1976, for facsimile publications of her novels. I continue to advise and supply on their related projects.
2004
- Agatha Christie, A Reader's Companion, Aurum Press, 224 images. aerial views of Burgh Island, historic lifestyle from 1900. Dress, interiors, typewriters, beaches, Middle East (Agatha Christie Archive at the British Museum), The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, first editions of her murder mysteries.
1998-2001
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; 1930s
- Lord Edgware Dies, Carnival films, 1930s
- Murder in Mesopotamia; 1930s
- Evil Under the Sun, 1930s for Charlotte Holdich and Sarah Grundy designers;
- Love in a Cold Climate for Mike O'Neil; 1930s
- Sherlock Holmes, for Sarah Grundy; 1880s
- Celia Barnett: Beyond Borders films; modern design research
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All images on this page are copyright © Vanessa Wagstaff unless otherwise stated.
