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Air stewardesses in training for their highly complicated job: Instructors and pupils outside the 'mock up' of a Hermes aircraft at the B.O.A.C. Stewards' (illustrated); and God-speed and bon voyage! Her Majesty's departure from London Airport, as the airliner left for the first stage of the Queen's six month circumnavigation of the Globe
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Bryan De Grineau (1883-1957)
Air stewardesses in training for their highly complicated job: Instructors and pupils outside the 'mock up' of a Hermes aircraft at the B.O.A.C. Stewards' (illustrated); and God-speed and bon voyage! Her Majesty's departure from London Airport, as the airliner left for the first stage of the Queen's six month circumnavigation of the Globe
the first signed, inscribed and dated 'BRYAN DE GRINEAU/B.O.A.C. HESTON/1951' (lower left); the second signed and inscribed 'BRYAN DE GRINEAU-/LONDON AIRPORT' (lower right)
pencil and black chalk heightened with white; unframed
21 x 30 in. (53.4 x 76 cm.); and similar
(2)
Air stewardesses in training for their highly complicated job: Instructors and pupils outside the 'mock up' of a Hermes aircraft at the B.O.A.C. Stewards' (illustrated); and God-speed and bon voyage! Her Majesty's departure from London Airport, as the airliner left for the first stage of the Queen's six month circumnavigation of the Globe
the first signed, inscribed and dated 'BRYAN DE GRINEAU/B.O.A.C. HESTON/1951' (lower left); the second signed and inscribed 'BRYAN DE GRINEAU-/LONDON AIRPORT' (lower right)
pencil and black chalk heightened with white; unframed
21 x 30 in. (53.4 x 76 cm.); and similar
(2)
Literature
the first, The Illustrated London News, 15 December 1951, pp. 988-989.
the second, The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November 28, 1953, Royal Commonwealth Tour (Special Number).
the second, The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November 28, 1953, Royal Commonwealth Tour (Special Number).
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