Browse Items (92 total)

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…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

24.5 x 19.5 cm

Portrait of Percy Grainger showing his side profile. He is wearing a shirt, tie and jacket .

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 14.5 x 9.7 cm
Photo and board: 30.2 x 24.7 cm

Joseph Taylor of Saxby-All-Saints, North Lincolnshire, was a bailiff on a large estate in the latter part of his life. He was also a traditional folksinger. In the year…

Black and white photograph.

Photo: 11.2 x 8.7 cm
Photo and board: 17.1 x 13.4 cm

This portrait depicts a stern faced elderly Ignacy Jan Paderewski in a black suit, white vest and cravat. This photograph has been mounted on a piece of…

Silver gelatin and silver chloride prints respectively.

Photo 1 (Sitting): 25.4 x 17.7 cm
Photo 2 (Standing): 25.2 x 17.7 cm
Photos and board: 48.1 x 63.3 cm

Grainger acquired high quality hand-enlarged photographs of nudes produced in…

Silver gelatin and silver chloride prints respectively.

Photo 1 (Sitting): 25.4 x 17.7 cm
Photo 2 (Standing): 25.2 x 17.7 cm
Photos and board: 48.1 x 63.3 cm

Grainger acquired high quality hand-enlarged photographs of nudes produced in…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

Photo: 14.5 x 10.2
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.6 cm

Platinum prints.

Photo: 14.0 x 9.5 cm
Photo and board: 28.0 x 20.7 cm
Envelope: 35.6 x 22.8 cm
These portraits were taken in the same sitting at Elliot and Fry studio in London, and demonstrate how a change in lighting and camera angle can…

Platinum prints.

Photo: 14.1 x 9.7 cm
Photo and board: 28 x 20.6 cm
Envelope: 35.6 x 22.8 cm

These portraits were taken in the same sitting at Elliot and Fry studio in London, and demonstrate how a change in lighting and camera angle can…

silver gelatin print, 23.3 x 15.4 cm

This elegant studio double portrait of Percy and Rose is unorthodox in the way the composition crops out the object of their avid attention, however it successfully documents the legendary closeness between…