Ethel Edith Mannin
1 portrait by Paul Tanqueray
© estate of Paul Tanqueray
Ethel Edith Mannin
by Paul Tanqueray
gelatin silver print, 1930
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (242 mm x 191 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1978
Photographs Collection
NPG x14264
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
Artistback to top
- Paul Tanqueray (1905-1991), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 186 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This classic art deco portrait was used to publicise her first outspoken autobiographical work Confessions and Impressions (1930). Tanqueray had a lifelong friendship with Ethel Edith Mannin and photographed her on a number of other occasions. When this photograph was taken Mannin had just bought a house, which she had admired since childhood, in Wimbledon. She lived there for nearly forty years. In the portrait, the Jazz background was designed by Tanqueray, painted by Ida Davis.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Birkett, Dea; Morris, Jan (foreword), Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 7 July to 31 October 2004), p. 96
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- A Century of Photography, 1840-1940 (17 October 2016 - 29 October 2017)
- Women Writers (9 December 2006 - 17 June 2007)
- Paul Tanqueray: Young in the Twenties (8 December 2004 - 15 June 2005)
- Off the Beaten Track (7 July 2004 - 31 October 2004)
- Centenaries and Centenarians (5 February 2000 - 11 August 2000)
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