Rose Grainger aged 18 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Printing-out paper print. Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm Photo and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm Portrait of Rose Grainger, mother of Percy Grainger, as a young women. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress with a row of buttons down the middle. The photograph is mounted on board from the photography studio. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Saul+Solomon">Saul Solomon</a> 1879 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0076 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 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 business started by George Henry Hana (1868-1938), who specialised in theatrical photography. Hana Studios were in Bedford Street in Covent Garden. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Hana+Studios%0D%0A">Hana Studios </a> c1906 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0064 Rose Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Printing-out paper print. 15.6 x 11.2 cm Portrait of Rose Grainger in New Zealand. She is facing the camera and is wearing a large round brim hat with feathers and a v neck dress. Rose Grainger is captured here wearing a quintessential Edwardian hat. The photographer, May Moore (1881-1931), was one of the few very successful female photographers working in the antipodes at the time. This image was most likely taken in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1908 when Rose accompanied Percy on his second tour to outposts of the British colonial empire with Australian contralto Ada Crossley and her concert party. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=May+Moore">May Moore</a> 1908 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0052.2 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 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 significantly alter the appearance of a subject. The studio was founded in 1863 at 55-56 Baker Street by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry and operated for a century. It specialised in portraits of leading social, artistic, scientific and political figures. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elliot+%26+Fry%2C+London">Elliot & Fry, London</a> c.1910 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0045 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Silver gelatin prints and mechanically printed postcard. 13.5 x 8.3 cm Aimé Dupont was a fashionable New York studio where Grainger sat for a number of portraits sometime before November 1915. He had already made his debut to New York audiences and with the help of a manager was energetically promoting his career. These four images indicate how he made the most of a single portrait sitting with printed and hand-written inscriptions added for a more personalised effect. He had numerous post cards featuring these images machine printed with details of his future performances. The studio’s namesake, Aimé Dupont, died in in 1900, but his family, and subsequent future investors, kept his ‘brand’ going until the 1950s. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Aim%C3%A9+Dupont%2C+N.Y.+">Aimé Dupont, N.Y. </a> 1915 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0051.2 Portrait of Roger Quilter in a black suit and bow tie <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide. Photo: 23.7 x 18.5 cm Photo and board: 30.5 x 25.3 cm The unknown photographer of this image has captured Roger Quilter with a stony-faced visage, a visual contradiction to various written descriptions of this composer of English art songs. Described as ‘a man of extraordinary generosity and gentleness of spirit’ by Grainger’s biographer John Bird, Grainger had great affection for him and, as he did with Cyril Scott, wrote to him almost weekly. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown">Unknown</a> Late 1940s. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0048 Ella Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 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 commercial photographer Fred Morse. Clothing design was one of Ella Grainger’s interests, and in this photograph she is modelling a recent creation. <a href="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/show/564">The coat</a>, made of blue bath mat fabric, was worn variously by Ella and Percy Grainger, and it still in the Grainger Museum Collection <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Fredrich+Morse.+New+York.">Fredrich Morse. New York.</a> 1933 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0040 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Silver gelatin print. Photo: 24.1 x 18.4 cm Photo and larger card: 45.8 x 35.4 cm It appears Grainger liked this image very much, as the collection contains multiple copies signed by the photographer. Arnold Genthe was a celebrity photographer who worked in San Francisco and later New York. Genthe’s great contribution to photographic history is his documentation of San Francisco's China Town before it was completely destroyed by fire in 1906. He used a concealed camera and is considered to be one of the first modern street photographers. Genthe’s technique of catching his subject unaware translated into the studio, where his sitters seem unposed and captured mid-thought. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Arnold+Genthe">Arnold Genthe</a> Unknown <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0055 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Silver gelatin print. Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm Note: 19.0 x 21 cm Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with Grainger in the field of Free Music. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Burnett+Cross%2C+%281914%E2%80%931996%29%2C+New+York">Burnett Cross, (1914–1996), New York</a> 1960 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0038 Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 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 taken by professional photographers, which he would then mail to Rose—a way of maintaining the closeness of their bond. This photograph held great significance for him, as it was the last he sent to her before she committed suicide in 1922. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Frederick+Bushnell+Studio%2C+San+Francisco">Frederick Bushnell Studio, San Francisco</a> April 1922 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0042