Postage stamp — Postage stamp featuring an image of Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) featuring a photograph by Alexander Stewart, known as Sasha (1892-1953). Issued by the Royal Mail in 2013, The Royal Mail,
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
2013
Postage stamp — Postage stamp featuring an image of Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) featuring a photograph by Alexander Stewart, known as Sasha (1892-1953). Issued by the Royal Mail in 2013, The Royal Mail, is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 2013. The museum's brief description reads: Postage stamp featuring a coloured image of a black and white photograph of Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) by Alexander Stewart, known as Sasha (1892-1953). Issued by the Royal Mail in 2013 as part of their series of Great Britons.. Museum description: Postage stamp featuring a coloured image of a photograph of Vivien Leigh (1913-1976) as Pamela Golding-Finch in Because We Must by Ingaret Giffard at Wyndham's Theatre in 1937. The museum record gives material recorded as paper, colour printing ink, adhesive, adhesive. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
This stamp was issued by the Royal Mail on 16th April 2013 as part of their series of First Class stamps celebrating Great Britons. Leigh was featured in the centenary of her birth, along with Norman Parkinson, Vivien Leigh, Peter Cushing, David Lloyd George, Elizabeth David, John Archer, Benjamin Britten, Mary Leakey, Bill Shankly and Richard Dimbleby. The photograph taken by the Scottish photographer Alexander Stewart known as Sasha (1892-1953) features Leigh in the costume she wore as Pamela Golding-Finch in Because We Must by Ingaret Giffard at Wyndham's Theatre in 1937.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- paper, colour printing ink, adhesive, adhesive
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Printed paper, the reverse coated with adhesive
Identification
- Museum attribution
- The Royal Mail
- Museum object name
- Postage stamp
- Museum object number
- S.193-2020
- Museum system number
- O1553371
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the museum record and a specialist reference.