Earring Gallery

Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress, c1950s(?).Artist: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress, c1950s(?). Elizabeth Taylor made her screen debut as a child in Lassie Come Home in 1943. In the 1960s she became a Hollywood superstar, winning Best Actress Oscars for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966). In 1963 she received what was then the highest fee for appearing in a film, when she signed up to play the title role in Cleopatra

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Scenes from Abyssinia, 1820

Governor of Abyssinia in breastplate with turban and upright ornament 67, eating raw flesh cut from a live cow 68, and the bridge over the cataract of Alala on the River Nile 68. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes in Africa for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, Harris and Son, London, 1820

© Florilegius

Cover of The Sketch featuring model wearing Cartier jewels

Vibrant front cover of The Sketch with a model wearing Cartier Jewellery (New Bond Street, W1). The butter-yellow evening dress is by Frank Usher and made of layers of tulle. The make-up is by Elizabeth Arden. Date: 1958

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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