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Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 20 x 14.5 cm
Photo and board: 22.8 x 16.4

This photograph is from a series of promotional photographs Grainger had made in London as his performing career progressed. The photograph was taken at Hana Studios, a…

Printing-out paper print. Photo: 14.3 x 10.1; Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8

The photograph is mounted on board from the photography studio. An inscription on the mounting board, written by Percy Grainger in red ink, reads "PG Sent by Mididney, May…

Black and white photograph.

Photo: 14.3 x 10.3 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8 cm

This portrait shows the young Percy Grainger dressed in a suit, vest and tie and looking to his right. The photograph has been mounted onto thick cardboard with…

Black and white photograph.

27.9 x 35.3 cm

Portrait of Percy Grainger in his later years. He is dressed in a tuxedo and is resting his arms on top of a grand piano.

Silver gelatin print. 35.2 x 27.2 cm Swedish artist, poet and amateur musician Ella Viola Ström (1889-1979) married Grainger in 1928. Here she is depicted on her veranda in White Plains, New York, in a photograph taken by her neighbour, the…

Silver gelatin print, 24.5 x 19.4 cm

Frederick Morse was a photographer who lived next door to the Grainger household at 9 Cromwell Place, White Plains, in New York. His wife Tonie Morse became Grainger’s manager in 1925. Grainger initially…

Silver gelatin print.

24.9 x 18.5 cm

Frederick Morse was a photographer who lived next door to the Grainger household at 9 Cromwell Place, White Plains, in New York. His wife Tonie Morse became Grainger’s manager in 1925. Grainger initially…

Silver gelatin print.

24.7 x 19.6 cm

Frederick Morse was a photographer who lived next door to the Grainger household at 9 Cromwell Place, White Plains, in New York. His wife Tonie Morse became Grainger’s manager in 1925. Grainger initially…

Black and white photograph. 25.1 x 19.4 cm Swedish poet and painter, Ella Viola Strom, married Percy Grainger at the Hollywood Bowl, Southern California, USA, on 9 August 1928. The wedding occurred in front of a huge audience, estimated as between…

Toned silver gelatin print.

Photo: 24.1 x 19.0 cm
Photo and frame: 30.3 x 24.3 cm

Grainger spent a lot of his life away from home touring as a concert pianist. While his mother was alive he developed a pattern of having photographs of himself…