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Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

(1904-1977), Actress and society beauty; former wife of Lord Ashley and of Douglas Fairbanks Sr and of 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley and of Clark Gable, and later wife of Prince Dimitri Djordjadze

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Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Paul Tanqueray - NPG x180082

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, early 1930s
NPG x180082

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Paul Tanqueray - NPG x180081

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, 1930
NPG x180081

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x193463

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 21 January 1931
NPG x193463

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x13690

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1932
NPG x13690

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x13691

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1932
NPG x13691

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25982

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 1932
NPG x25982

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x29438

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
whole-plate film negative, 1932
NPG x29438

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x4359

Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1932
NPG x4359

Our Savage Cartoonist's Queer Nightmare - A Super Mayfair Pantomime Suggestion, by Anthony Wysard - NPG D309

Our Savage Cartoonist's Queer Nightmare - A Super Mayfair Pantomime Suggestion

by Anthony Wysard
pencil and watercolour, 1933
NPG D309

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Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley

by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 1 March 1927
NPG x49144

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