Lord Snowdon 8 Signed Photos limited British Royalty !! Start Price USD 7,500.00 Current Price USD 7,500.00 Time Left 13 days 14 hours 50 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 23, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Location Michigan See more about 'Lord Snowdon 8 Signed Photos limited British Royalty !!' Description kirstiealley Store Wild Flowers by SnowdonA Limited Edition Portfolio of Eight Wild Flower PhotographsItem Description:  'Wild Flowers' by Snowdon, a limited edition portfolio bringing together a collection of unique floral portraits by world renowned photographer Lord Snowdon.  Only 500 portfolios are available world-wide and are very elusive to find through retail. This set is 119/500.  The wild flowers featured were photographed by Snowdon during the Spring/Early Summer of 1994 and the sets were hand-printed in 1994 by Carlisle Fine Art Photographs Limited. The portfolio contains eight 10" x 8" photographs of wild flower studies : the Mountain Knapweed, a Poppy, Columbine, the Dog Rose, the Flag Iris, Solomon's Seal, an Allium and the Wild Garlic flower - all of which are hand signed by Lord Snowdon, each is individually numbered. Each portrait has been hand printed using carefully chosen photographic materials to capture the rich colour and detail and to maximise the longevity of the images.  The photographs have been set in mounts and the presentation case lined with Bockingford water-colour paper as it is acid free and will allow the prints to be handled and enjoyed without risk.  The green hard bound presentation case includes a certificate of authenticity signed by Lord Snowdon (bringing together nine signatures in total). This is a great item for fine photography and Royal memorabilia collectors as Snowdon photographs had never before been made available in limited edition form.  Item is in mint condition, an extremely scarce collectable.See my other great items in my eBay storeAntony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Baron Armstrong-Jones, GCVO, RDI (born 7 March 1930) is a British photographer and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker who sits in the House of Lords by a life peerage granted him in 1999. He was married to Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978. Dispite his divorce from The Princess Margaret, he maintains a close relationship with the royal family and he takes all the queens offical photographs. Early lifeThe only son of barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899–1966) and his first wife, the society beauty Anne Messel (1902–1992, later Countess of Rosse), Snowdon, who is of Welsh and German Jewish ancestry, is a member of a notably artistic family. His maternal great-grandfather was the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne (1844–1910), his great-great-uncle Alfred Messel was a well-known Berlin architect, and his mother's brother was Oliver Messel, a noted British set and costume designer and architect. CareerAfter being educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he studied architecture, Armstrong-Jones took up a career as a photographer in the fields of fashion, design and theatre. As his career as a portraitist began to flourish, he became known for his royal studies, among which were the official portraits of his future sister-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, and the Duke of Edinburgh for their 1957 tour of Canada.In the early 1960s, he became the picture editor of the Sunday Times magazine, and by the 1970s, Snowdon had gained a reputation as one of Britain's most prominent and respected photographers. Though his subject matter includes everything from fashion models to documentary-style images of inner city life and people who are mentally ill, he is praised for his portraits of world notables (the National Gallery has more than 100 in its collection), many of which have been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the Daily Telegraph magazine. His subjects have included Barbara Cartland, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Blunt, J. R. R. Tolkien, and others.In 2001, Snowdon was the subject of a career retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, "Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective", which travelled to the Yale Center for British Art. More than 180 of his photographs were displayed in an exhibition that honored what the museums called "a rounded career with sharp edges".He also co-designed, in 1960–1963, with Frank Newby and Cedric Price, the aviary of the London Zoo. First marriageOn 26 February 1960 he became engaged to the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and they married on 6 May 1960 at Westminster Abbey. On 6 October 1961, when his wife was expecting their first child and there was concern over a British princess giving birth to a child without a title, Armstrong-Jones was created Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex. The Snowdon title has centuries-old royal associations, since the name Snowdon was borne by the Welsh princes and the House of Gwynedd prior to 1282, though in this instance it was granted as a nod to Armstrong-Jones's Welsh ancestry. The subsidiary Linley title honored Lord Snowdon's great-grandfather Linley Sambourne as well as Nymans, the Messel family estate in West Sussex.With Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon had two children: David, Viscount Linley (born 3 November 1961) and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (born 1 May 1964).The couple's marriage was a combustible union of personalities and began to fail early on, owing to the Princess's penchant for late-night partying, her husband's working schedule, and their equally combative natures. The failing marriage was reportedly accompanied by bizarre behaviour by both parties. According to biographer Sarah Bradford, Snowdon once left a note for Princess Margaret that read, "You look like a Jewish manicurist and I hate you".[1]Princess Margaret engaged in her own extramarital peccadilloes. Insecure in the shadow of her sister, the Queen, she was also fond of pulling rank and pointing out her husband's less-than-royal origins, once correcting publicly his use of the "non-U" word material (i.e., cloth) for what U-speakers offhandedly called "stuff".The marriage finally ended in divorce in 1978. Second marriageAfter his divorce from Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, daughter of Donald Brook Davies and former wife of film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, on 15 December 1978. Their only child, Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones, was born seven months later, on 17 July 1979. They divorced in 2000 upon the revelation that the 68-year-old Lord Snowdon had fathered a son out of wedlock, Jasper William Oliver Cable-Alexander (born 30 April 1998), with Melanie Cable-Alexander, an editor at Country Life magazine. Life peerageOn 16 November 1999 Lord Snowdon was created Baron Armstrong-Jones, of Nymans in the County of West Sussex. This was a life peerage given him so that he could keep his seat in the House of Lords after the hereditary peers had been excluded. An offer of a life peerage was made to all hereditary peers of the first creation (i.e., those for whom a peerage was originally created, as opposed to those who inherited a peerage from an ancestor) at that time. Titles and honours Titles    * 7 March 1930–6 October 1961: Antony Armstrong-Jones, Esq.    * 6 October 1961 – : The Rt Hon. The Earl of Snowdon Honours    * GCVO: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 7 July 1969 References   1. ^ Bradford, Sarah (1996). Elizabeth. London: William Heinemann. Earl of Snowdon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex, for Antony Armstrong-Jones, husband of HRH The Princess Margaret. Snowdon as a peerage title had previous royal associations; the title of Baron Snowdon had been conferred along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh on Prince Frederick Louis, grandson of George I and future Prince of Wales, in 1726. The title merged in the crown in 1760 when its holder acceded as George III.In November 1999, Lord Snowdon received a life peerage as Baron Armstrong-Jones under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditaries to retain their seats in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. Earls of Snowdon (1961)    * Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930)Heir Apparent: David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (b. 1961)Lord Linley's Heir Apparent: The Hon. Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones (b. 1999)    * 2000s    * 1970s   1. "Britain's Finest" .... Himself (1 episode, 2003)          - Castles (2003) TV episode .... Himself   2. Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up (2002) (TV) .... Himself   3. "V.I.P.-Schaukel" .... Himself (1 episode, 1972)          - Episode #2.6 (1972) TV episode .... HimselfArchive Footage:   1. Prince of Wales: Kings in Waiting (2000) (TV) .... Himself   2. "The Beatles Anthology" (1995) (mini) (uncredited) .... Himself   3. You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995) (V) (uncredited) .... Himself Place a Bid!