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Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 21.1 x 16 cm
Photo and card: 25.2 x 20.2 cm

Portrait of Percy Grainger in his later years. He is wearing a pinstripe suit with shirt, tie, vest, jacket and pocket square and is also crossing his arms. The…

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…

Printed post card.

13.9 x 8.9 cm

Percy Grainger's portrait and information about his concert is printed in the form of a postcard.

Paris-based Australian painter, Rupert Bunny, was commissioned by Percy Grainger to paint this portrait in the first few years of the young musician’s professional career. Bunny depicted Grainger holding a sheet of music and focussed attention on his…

digital print from scanned sheet film.

Looking like a contemporary depiction of the martyrdom of Saint Anthony, the original purpose of this photograph has been lost. Grainger is depicted in silhouette, and the original negative has been…

Oil on canvas. Size including frame: 113.5 x 70.5cm

Ernest Thesiger was one of the closest of the many artist and musician friends that Grainger made, especially in the first decades of his career. Thesiger was an aspiring painter when he made this drawing, and later became a stage and film actor.…

Silver gelatin print (annotations on negative by Percy Grainger), 10 x 15.5 cm

According to the inscriptions on the top and bottom of the photograph, this image depicts Percy Grainger scoring ballads in his dining room at Springfield Apartments.…

Percy Grainger with Dr Earle Kent, and ‘Dr Kent’s Electronic Music Box’, USA, c.1951

Reproduction from original 35 mm slide

Grainger Museum Archive, 99.6700.1

With his Free Music experiments conducted through the 1940s and 1950s, Grainger…

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…