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| Cecil Beaton Self Portrait ca. 1924 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Cecil Beaton Elsie de Wolfe 1928 ink and watercolor on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Carmel Snow ca. 1928 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Paula Gellibrand, later Marquesa de Casa Maury ca. 1928-29 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cecil Beaton Juliana Force ca. 1931 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cecil Beaton Flora Whitney ca. 1932 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cecil Beaton Ruth Ford ca. 1930-40 gelatin silver print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Gloria Swanson ca. 1935 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Elsie de Wolfe ca. 1939 gelatin silver print Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York |
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| Cecil Beaton Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek 1943 photo-lithograph (poster) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton H.M. the King wearing Admiral's uniform 1944 photo-lithograph National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Palace of Amber, Jaipur 1944 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cecil Beaton Gertrude Stein, 5 rue Christine 1945 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Lynn Fontanne 1952 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Elizabeth II 1955 gelatin silver print Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Cecil Beaton The Tackle ca. 1960 oil on canvas National Football Museum, Manchester |
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| Cecil Beaton William John Christopher Vassall 1966 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
from Remedia Amores
Come then sick youth unto my sacred skill,
Whose love hath fallen crosse unto your minde:
Learne how to remedie that pleasing ill,
Of him that taught you your own harmes to finde,
For in that selfesame hand your helpe is found,
Whence first ye did receive your careful wound.
Whiles well thou maist, and ere that secret ware,
Be thoroughly kindled in thy troubled minde,
If thou repent, รด run not on too far,
Retire, ere greater cause of grief thou finde.
Treade down the starting seeds of springing wo,
And turne thy Steed, ere he untamed growe.
Delay gives strength, time ripes the greenest grasse,
And makes corn stiff, that was a weake spring weed:
The greatest tree that farthest spreads his sape,
Was first a wand, or but a little seed.
Then mought it be thrown down, drawne up, soone broke,
Now stands it stiffe, and conquers every stroke.
– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by F.L. (1600)