a bit more Sitwell

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The Sitwells by John Singer Sargent, 1900

Edith Sitwell

Sir George Sitwell

Lady Ida Sitwell

 Sacheverell Sitwell, the Spare

Osbert Sitwell, the Heir

(interior of Renishaw)

in the Drawing Room at Renishaw

photographed by Bill Brandt, 1945

Edith Sitwell

Osbert Sitwell

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below the Sargent, an 18th c. silhoutte

of the Sitwell and Warnerford families

by Francis Torond

the Drawing Room photograph accompanied a series in Lilliput, Nov, 1949- "An Odd Lot"- text by Alan Pryce-Jones here:  

'In a plain age, they have always maintained coloured standards. Large houses and large imaginings; good prose and good food; movement and vision; warm friendship and blood rows- in public and in private their roles are as remote from the Century of the Common Man as the Aztecs.'

(Fascinating)

(from THE SITWELLS, Bradford,Clerk,Fryer,Gibson,Pearson)

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